Ocean Robbins is founder and co-director of YES! — "Young Leaders Connect, Inspire and Collaborate", which he founded in 1990, at age 16. Ocean has spoken in person to more than 200,000 people and facilitated dozens of gatherings for young leaders from more than 65 nations. Ocean is author of Choices for Our Future and of the just released The Power of Partnership, and has served as a board member for Friends of the Earth, EarthSave International, and many other organizations.

In 2002, he was selected by Audubon and Time as among the heroes of the new millennium. He is a 2008 recipient of the Freedom’s Flame Award, and of the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service by an Individual 35 Years Or Younger. He and his wife Michele are the parents of River and Bodhi Robbins, identical twin boys born in 2001.