Sofia Castelo is a climate adaptation practitioner, researcher, and landscape architect with over 20 years of experience designing and managing landscape, urban design, and environmental projects in Europe, China, the USA, Australia, and Malaysia. She holds a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture and postgraduate degrees in Project Management and Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. Sofia is currently focused on using nature-based solutions for urban adaptation. The 'Nature-based Climate Adaptation Program for the Urban Areas of Penang Island', a project she led and is currently in execution, won the Climathon Global Cities Award 2020 and the KSAAEM Award 2022. In 2023, she co-founded the El Collective, an integrated arts and research project documenting the impact of climate change on women and girls in the Global South.

Daniel J. Kirchner is a Senior Lewis Lecturer in the Lewis Honors College at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches teach environmental and food ethics. He believes values underlie the beliefs which drive the actions one takes. His goal as a teacher is to guide each student toward deeper understanding of that set of connections so that they can apply their education to what they find meaningful to do in the world. As a philosopher, he aims aim to show students how to know and critically evaluate the systems in which they will do those meaningful things so that they can be thoughtful and effective. And as an ethicist, he creates opportunities for them to engage in the difficult and vulnerable work of considering their own values as the foundation for these actions.

Clinton Callahan is a pioneering thoughtware upgrader known for originating the field of Possibility Management. He is co-author of 700 websites in the StartOver.xyz universe <howtoplay.mystrikingly.com> and author of the books Building Love That Lasts, Conscious Feelings, and just now a startlingly rich novel: Cavitation: the emergence of Archiarchy <cavitation.mystrikingly.com>. Clinton currently lives in a Bridgehouse <bridgehouse.mystrikingly.com> on Crete with 10 other Archans. He coined the term 'Archiarchy' in 2007 <archiarchy.mystrikingly.com> after reading J.F. Richard's book High Noon: 20 global problems and 20 years to solve them, written in 2004. In other words, the 20 years are up. Archiarchy is the initiation-centered radically-responsible nonmaterial-value regenerative culture naturally emerging around the world now that Matriarchy and Patriarchy have run their course. <regenerateearthgoals.mystrikingly.com>

Melissa Farley is a feminist research and clinical psychologist who founded Prostitution Research & Education (PRE) in 1995.  Farley, PRE, and their many partners are celebrating the 54th peer reviewed publication on prostitution, trafficking, and pornography.

PRE offers a free library of resources at www.prostitutionresearch.com and posts regularly on FaceBook.

John Seed is the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and has dedicated his life to the protection of rainforests and their biodiversity since 1979. In 1995 he was
awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment.

Tom Murphy is a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy/astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego.  Tom retired early from his academic career to focus on planetary limits and escaping the trap of modernity with the intent to learn more about ecological relationships in the community of life.

Lisa Linowes has served as the executive director of the WindAction Group, an advocacy organization that tracks and reports on the costs and impacts of industrial-scale wind energy development. Over the last 20 years, she’s written and testified extensively on these issues and the policies that drive wind energy deployments. Most recently Lisa joined Michael Shellenberger’s non-profit, Civilization Works, as the director of Energy and the Environment.

Robert Rand is an acoustician with over forty years of experience providing environmental and technical consulting services to power generation, military, medical, commercial, industrial, and community projects. Rob is a Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and a Member Emeritus of the Institute of Noise Control Engineers (INCE). Over the last fifteen years Rob has conducted numerous investigations and testings of wind turbine noise, infrasonic pressure pulsations, community noise impact assessments, and provided expert testimony for industrial wind turbines at multiple facilities.

Kirsten K. Shockey is a mother and grandmother passionate about trees and forests, building wetlands and beavers. Through this passion, she’s been active in local organizations, includinng the OSU Small Farms advisory committee, Applegate Partnership, Applegate Siskyou Alliance, State of the Beaver Conference, and Project Beaver. Her day job is helping people to make, enjoy, and connect with their food. She can be found writing about life and fermentation at fermentingchange.substack from her home in the mountains of southern Oregon. Kirsten is an award-winning author of 6 books and co-founder of The Fermentation School a women-owned and women-led benefits corporation supporting the voices of independent educators to empower learning and build culture.

Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau’s birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development. He's been working on promoting legislation to protect most state forest lands in Massachusetts from logging and other resource extraction.

Janet Sinclair is a co-founder with Michael Kellett of Save Massachusetts Forests. They are working on saving forests from what they consider unnecessary logging.

Michelle Connolly is an activist who lives in Prince George, BC, the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh Nation. She has spent much of her life exploring and experiencing natural forests, and has an educational background in forest ecology, although she is not a researcher and does not do science for a living. Michelle is part of Conservation North