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Carolyn Shafer has been working with PARA since shortly after it was formed in 2011, initially on the board of directors, including Board President, then as Mission Coordinator (ED). She has a wealth of knowledge about the special nature of the Patagonia Mountains and the battle to protect the water, air and wildlife of this special area.  Carolyn has a background in business management. She also owned a mine claim where she extracted turquoise for jewelry - she's the type of miner the 1872 Mining Law was designed for. Joni Clark Stellar moved to Patagonia in 2022, after 4 years moving around the Southwest in my RV after  losing everything in the Paradise Fire of 2018. With a background in environmental nonprofit work, Joni offered to help PARA. She has served on the PARA board for a year, and also helps with communications and fundraising.

Dr. Lisa Quattrocki Knight. After graduating from Stanford University, she earned an MD/PhD from Yale. Her PhD was in basic neuroscience. She then completed a medical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and her adult psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital. She has been affiliated with Harvard Medical School since 1994 and spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University College of London. She has three daughters and cares deeply about the world in which they will raise their own children. She recognizes that our sense of well-being benefits from feeling connected to the natural world, especially the ocean. We cannot afford to spoil the few remaining natural habitats left on this planet. As a result, she has co-founded a grassroots organization to protect the ocean and the biodiverse life it sustains from industrialization.Constance Gee resides in Westport, MA where she has worked on behalf of animals and barrier beach protection for years. She first found out about the planned development of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf by offshore wind in Feb 2021, and has been working in active opposition ever since. She joined Green Oceans when it was founded in the fall of that same year. She is also a member of Save Right Whales Coalition, an umbrella group under which a dozen offshore wind opposition groups from NC to Maine have come together to support one another and share information. She and two other colleagues have recently founded a new group, Protect Our Westport Waters (POWW). POWW aims to stop Vineyard Wind from bringing the high-voltage cabling from one of its projects onshore at a local beach and through the entire length of Westport.

Before Katie Singer began questioning our techno-sphere, she wrote a novel about four generations of mothers and daughters and several books about natural family planning. Her 2014 book, An Electronic Silent Spring, reports on how electromagnetic radiation emitted by telecom devices and infrastructure impact wildlife and public health. She’s currently finishing Mapping Our Technosphere. This book starts with a photo essay about the mining, water use, energy use, toxic waste, worker hazards and fire hazards involved in manufacturing, operating and discarding utilities, the Internet, solar and wind power and electric vehicles. She publishes regularly at KatieSinger.substack.com.

Dr. Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, and is the author of the book, "Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate"

Jeff Gibbs is a lifelong environmentalist, writer, and filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced the 2020 film Planet of the Humans with an audience of over 20 million. Jeff was a producer for the Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, the top box office documentary of all time Fahrenheit 9/11, the anti-whaling film At the Edge of the World, and the Dixie Chicks’ Shut Up and Sing. Jeff is working on a new book and film, and his Substack is Planet of Delusions.

Nathan Hutchinson is an artist, now writer living in Boulder, Colorado , dedicated his life study to nature, both physical and soulful, our place here with Earth which has seemingly been lost, and how we might reintegrate ourselves . He believes that art, of whatever genre can, and perhaps even is a tool or method by which we achieve this reintroduction to Nature. His book Evergreen is a somewhat culmination of work in this field of thought.