Olivia Carbi is a 2025 NOAA Coastal Resilience Fellow with the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program, where she focuses on public-engaged research and capacity building. She is working on the Pili Nā Moku Project to help develop and implement holistic resilience practices from mauka to makai (mountain to ocean) aimed at increasing adaptive capacity across interconnected systems. This work includes programming aimed at strategically increasing local capacity to improve coastal resilience. Olivia also contributes to the programming, administration, and technical advising for the Community Resilience Grants Program.

Olivia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in Miami, Florida. From a young age, she felt a deep connection to the environment and a strong sense of care for others, values that have guided her path in environmental work. In 2020, she earned a BS in environmental science from Florida State University and moved to Hawai‘i in 2022 to pursue a Master of Environmental Management (MEM) at UH Mānoa. Her graduate research was centered on biocultural restoration and place-based education in ‘Ewa Moku and Pu‘uloa, where she worked with the UH Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation to co-develop, co-facilitate, and evaluate an undergraduate internship program. She also worked with the UH Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management to research the value of volunteer workdays on O‘ahu and the reciprocal relationship between volunteers and environmental service groups.