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Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey Orielle Lake works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in many publications.

Felice Pace was born on January 10th 1947 into the working classItalian Community in South Philadelphia. He holds a BA in Economicsfrom Yale U., an MA in Education from Montclair State University anda life-time California teaching credential. He has worked as ateacher/educator, laborer, Outward Bound instructor, social servicesadministrator and for Native American tribes. For fifteen yearsduring the 80s and 90s Felice worked for and led the Klamath ForestAlliance as Program Coordinator and Executive Director. During thattime he played a major role in the campaign to protect Northwest andNorthern California Ancient Forests, including participation as aspeaker at President Clinton's Forest Conference. Currently Feliceengages as an independent Klamath River, Scott River, clean water andstreamflow activist and pursues a number of writing project. Feliceblogs on Klamath River issues at www.KlamBlog.org. He has lived inNorthwest California's Klamath River Basin since 1975 and  currentlyresides at Klamath Glen near the mouth of the Klamath River.

Susan A. Masino is a neuroscientist and a professor of appliedscience at Trinity College. Her research is focused on promotingbrain health and on the critical role of self-sustaining,climate-regulating ecosystems, particularly natural forests, tosupport local and global wellbeing. She is a coauthor on a recentregional report titled "Wildlands in New England: Past, Present andFuture," and on the seminal paper on proforestation, i.e. growingexisting forests, as an essential and cost-effective strategy forlong-term ecological and human health.

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.