Marie is a writer, editor, and advisor on advancing social justice through strategic communications. For more than 25 years, she has led communications teams, and campaigns focused on expanding and equalizing access to knowledge and power, including successful ballot measures to invest in LA County’s homelessness response and the first internal social media platform to give a voice to the frontline banking center employees at Bank of America. She helped create the Cash for College project in the Los Angeles Mayor’s office, which is now a statewide program that has helped families access millions of dollars of financial aid. She has secured positive media coverage and front-page stories in national media outlets including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She ran a dot-com startup on emerging trends that was recognized by The New York Times, InStyle, O: The Oprah Magazine, TIME and more. Condron was the co-founder of New Downtown, an award-winning online community for residents revitalizing Downtown Los Angeles, and she edited the Southern California Technology Calendar, a weekly events listing that ran in the Los Angeles Times business section. She writes essays and creative nonfiction and serves on the board of UNITE-LA.

Josh has helped people, organizations, and campaigns communicate clear and commanding messages across two millennia. Before co-founding Ocean & Mountain in 2018, he consulted for clients, including unions such as UNITE HERE and United Teachers-Los Angeles, nonprofits such as Imagine LA and Friends of the Los Angeles River and philanthropic organizations such as Liberty Hill and the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles. Before that, he directed communication strategy for the office of Los Angeles Councilmember Eric Garcetti during the future mayor's rise to the council presidency, collaborating closely on everything from op-ed pieces and speeches to the launch of the first-ever weblog by an elected official and the occasional roast song. Kamensky graduated with honors from Yale University after attending Deep Springs College. His experience in addition to communications consulting ranges from union and community organizing to screenwriting, music and comedy, and once included the operation of a very small dairy.

Jennifer Breshears Wheeler, Client Services Director

Since 2019, Jen has worked with Ocean & Mountain clients to create actionable communications plans, craft compelling messaging and publish powerful op-eds. Jen is a Los Angeles native and UCSB graduate. Prior to her work at O&M, Jen organized the March for Science Los Angeles, mobilizing 50,000 Angelenos to stand up for science in 2017. Previously, Jen worked as a health policy specialist for the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, a bipartisan organization that serves legislators and legislative staff across the nation, where she researched health policy, authored publications, planned educational seminars for policymakers, and facilitated key groups of state health stakeholders. After leaving Colorado, Jen worked at a Milwaukee-based public strategies firm, where she specialized in project management and non-profit management, working on grant proposals, local and statewide political campaigns, and public relations. Jen lives in the South Bay with her husband, two kids, two dogs, and two cats.

Katrina is a native, both of Los Angeles and as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She studied theatre and American history at Barnard College of Columbia University, and has found a way to interweave her two passions by forging a career in storytelling and activism. An example of Katrina's reporting can be found in this piece in The Guardian. Katrina has extensive experience in helping share women's stories. She is also in development on a fish-out-of-water comedy set in the Cherokee nation. In her downtime, Katrina is an avid traveler. She has been to over 35 countries and 6 continents but after a death defying experience in Patagonian waters, it's up in the air if you will find her crossing the Drake Passage to Antarctica.

Tony is a writer, editor, and strategic communications consultant who works with government agencies, non-profits, and other progressive, mission-driven organizations. He has had the good fortune to work with clients including Los Angeles County, the Packard Foundation, the California Community Endowment, and many others. A former award-winning journalist, he has published in New York Magazine, The Jewish Daily Forward, Next City, and the LA Daily News. He is also the co-writer (with his brother) of the Paramount Pictures feature comedy DRUNK WEDDING (the title was not his choice, but it’s a fun movie!). Tony also volunteers with local social justice organizations, with a particular interest in criminal legal reform, housing and homelessness, and transportation. He has previously worked in urban planning and as a nursery school teacher.

Mar Martinez, Communications Associate

Mar is a creative and compelling storyteller with roots in South Central Los Angeles, dedicated to engaging community members in movements that will transform neighborhoods. Mar began her activism as a youth organizer at Community Coalition and later became organizing director of Garment Worker Center where she led the strategic mission to end sweatshop conditions in the Los Angeles garment industry. She has worked in coalition with unions, workers centers and anti-sweatshop activists abroad, learning from organizers across the globe and advocating for a collective vision of a more just world. Mar has a bachelors in History and Ethnic Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mount Saint Mary's University. She is currently writing her first novel, about a South LA Latina who sees the spirits of the dead that haunt her neighborhood.