Laura Lecuona studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She’s an editor and translator specializing in memoirs, young adult fiction and social sciences. As a popularizer of feminism, she is a regular lecturer and writer. She’s Mexico’s country contact for Women’s Declaration International, and the author of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers (Spinifex Press, 2024).

Paul Tyson is an independent scholar and an Honorary Senior Fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He has academic qualifications in philosophy, theology, and sociology, and likes to mix them all up when trying to understand how strange the ordinary features of our contemporary way of life are. Three of his biggest intellectual heroes are Plato, Kierkegaard, and Ellul. Over the past few years he has been writing in the science and religion domain, which has resulted in the 2022 book 'A Christian Theology of Science' the 2021 book 'Theology and Climate Change' and the 2019 book 'Seven Brief Lessons on Magic'.

Dr. Robert Knight is the founder of the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to supporting science and education necessary for restoration and wise management of Florida’s artesian springs. Dr. Knight is an environmental scientist with more than 40 years of professional experience, including detailed ecological studies at many of Florida’s large artesian springs. He is former adjunct professor at the University of Florida Dept. of Environmental Engineering and Sciences where he taught graduate level classes on the ecology of Florida’s springs.

As Director of the Florida Springs Institute, Dr. Knight is active on research and restoration efforts at the Santa Fe River Springs, Kings Bay/Crystal River springs, Ichetucknee Springs, Rainbow Springs, Wakulla Springs, Homosassa Springs, Glen Springs, springs of the Suwannee River, Wekiva River springs, Volusia Blue Spring, and Silver Springs. Dr. Knight is also an advisor to springs advocacy groups throughout north Florida that help to educate local governmental officials about improved groundwater management and springs protection. Dr. Knight is author of Silenced Springs – Moving from Tragedy to Hope.

David Nickell is a a retired professor of philosophy and sociology and a former resident of what is now Land Between the Lakes. He was the sixth generation on their farm there, which was a land grant from the Revolutionary War.  TVA forced nearly a thousand families out for the LBL project. He lives on his maternal grandparent's farm now, which is about 20 miles north of LBL, still on the peninsula between the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.

Tiffany Justice is a wife and mom of four school-aged children. After serving four years on the School Board of the School District of Indian River County, Florida, she cofounded Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating, and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government. Founded in January of 2021, Moms for Liberty currently has 275 chapters in 44 states with over 115,000 active members.

Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. This is his third program with me focused on rare cats of the world. In 1993 he exposed a high-level racket in Japan involving trade in endangered species.  Today we talk about tigers.

Eric Balken grew up in Salt Lake City, building a connection to Utah’s mountains, rivers, and deserts at a young age. In his youth, Eric volunteered with local non-profits gaining experience in public land surveys, membership outreach, and grassroots organizing. Eric has been deeply involved with Colorado River policy for the past decade, helping spearhead multiple research and advocacy initiatives at GCI. Eric has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Geography from the University of Utah and serves as an advisory on the Future of the Colorado Group

Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community
ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de
Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of
the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also
collaborates with the Centre for Ecology,
Evolution and Environmental Changes of the
University of Lisbon, and the Department of
Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in
Brazil, and Before he worked at the University of
the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London.
He studies the effects of current and past
environmental conditions and ecological processes
on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the
role of species niche and ecological interactions
in the organization of biological communities in
time and space, and the use and misuse of
biodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seed
plants, vertebrates and insects, and has been
studying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.

Davis Mounger is the codirector of Tennessee Heartwood, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to the protection and promotion of Tennessee's public lands.  He has worked on public lands issues since the 1990's.  He currently teaches high school and occasionally conducts forest watch workshops

Andy Kerr ([email protected]) is the Czar of The Larch Company (www.andykerr.net ) and consults on environmental and conservation issues. The Larch Company is a for-profit non-membership conservation organization that represents the interests of humans yet born and species that cannot talk. Kerr started is professional conservation career during the Ford Administration. He is best known for his two decades with the Oregon Wild (then Oregon Natural Resources Council), the organization best known for having brought you the northern spotted owl. Kerr began his conservation career during the Ford Administration. Through 2019, Kerr has been closely involved in with the establishment or expansion of 47 Wilderness Areas and 57 Wild and Scenic Rivers, 13 congressionally legislated special management areas, 15 Oregon Scenic Waterways, and one proclaimed national monument (and later expanded). He has testified before congressional committees on several occasions.

Graham Linehan was born in Dublin. He is the mastermind behind beloved sitcoms Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Black Books and Motherland. His Substack is dedicated to monitoring the extremes of gender identity ideology and he also co-hosts the highly successful weekly YouTube show The Mess We’re In, which has garnered a remarkable 1.5 million views in just three years.