Honolulu native Mindy Pennybacker is a surfing columnist for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Surfer’s Journal, The Nation, The New York Times, The Green Guide, Sierra, Honolulu Weekly, and The Village Voice. She is the author of “Do One Green Thing” (HarperCollins, 2010) and the forthcoming “Surfing Sisterhood Hawai‘i” (Mutual Publishing, 2023).