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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.

Deanna Lynn Wulff is the Executive Director of Unite the Parks, an 501c3 nonprofit, which she founded. Their primary goal is to protect 1.4 million acres of federal land between Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks by creating the Range of Light National Monument. In the 11-year campaign, from grassroots to grasstops, she has learned much about America's political infrastructure, and has stories and suggestions about how we citizens might regain control in an oligarchy and bring democracy back.

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'.

Nicole Mowbray came out as a lesbian in 1986 in Melbourne, Australia. She was 19 at the time and came out to a thriving lesbian community. In the intervening 40 years, she has watched that thriving community go underground in order to keep males out. It is now illegal for lesbians to have public single sex spaces and there is now nowhere for young lesbians to find their community. Nicole joined the Lesbian Action Group in order to try to turn this around and has been involved in the ensuing legal action. She worked professionally as an academic librarian and multimedia designer and has also been involved in the environmental movement as a climate leader and grower of trees."

George Wuerthner. He is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.

James Van Lanen has spent nearly two decades as a professional anthropologist studying and working with indigenous hunter-gatherers on three continents. James is also an active subsistence hunter, fisher, and forager, extensively involved in the material arts of rewilding and bushcraft, mostly off-grid in the far north. He currently works as a Wildlife Technician for Alaska's Wood Bison Restoration Project and as an Environmental Specialist for the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, a tribal NGO focused on salmon conservation. Human Rewilding in the 21st Century is his first book. He is currently working on three other books surrounding anthropology and the crisis of civilization. Some of his previous writings have appeared in the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research, Human Ecology, Oak Journal, Black and Green Review, and Wild Resistance.

Rupert Read, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of East Anglia, now co-directs the Climate Majority Project, having previously helped launch Extinction Rebellion. He is the author of many books, including Why Climate Breakdown Matters.

Rocky Smith moved to Colorado from the midwest in 1975 and quickly became enamored with Colorado's beautiful mountains. On a climbing trip in 1979, he witnessed abuse of the wilderness he was in. He has worked hard to protect Colorado's wild areas ever since, working with non-profit organizations and as an independent consultant

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 and author of the books Building Love That Lasts, Conscious Feelings, and just now a startlingly rich novel: Cavitation: the emergence of Archiarchy . Clinton currently lives in a Bridgehouse on Crete with 10 other Archans. He coined the term 'Archiarchy' in 2007 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.

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

George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.

Richard W. Halsey loves sharing the magic of Nature, especially when it comes to chaparral, California's most extensive native plant community. He started teaching natural history as a 16-year-old volunteer naturalist at the El Dorado Nature Center in Long Beach, California, enjoyed learning about biology and anthropology in college, then taught high school biology, chemistry, and physics for two decades, leading his students on dozens of wilderness experiences to discover the preciousness of life. Since founding and directing the California Chaparral Institute in 2004, Richard has written a handful of research papers, a couple books, a fair number of editorials, and has given hundreds of presentations, all concerning chaparral ecology and the importance of reestablishing our connection with Nature.

Jessica Carew Kraft is the author of Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman's Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st-Century Questions (Sourcebooks, 2023). An independent journalist trained in anthropology, she became a naturalist and wild food forager in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California

Warren Hern is a physician and epidemiologist. He is the author of "Abortion in the Age of Unreason: A Doctor's Account of Caring for Women Before and after Roe v. Wade."

James Van Lanen has spent nearly two decades as a professional anthropologist studying and working with indigenous hunter-gatherers on three continents. James is also an active subsistence hunter, fisher, and forager, extensively involved in the material arts of rewilding and bushcraft, mostly off-grid in the far north. He currently works as a Wildlife Technician for Alaska's Wood Bison Restoration Project and as an Environmental Specialist for the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, a tribal NGO focused on salmon conservation. Human Rewilding in the 21st Century is his first book. He is currently working on three other books surrounding anthropology and the crisis of civilization. Some of his previous writings have appeared in the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research, Human Ecology, Oak Journal, Black and Green Review, and Wild Resistance.

Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, Manda Scott was once a veterinary surgeon and is now an award-winning novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast. Taking a Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College taught her that hospicing modernity is our most urgent task--and that it's only possible if enough of us have road maps showing routes through from exactly where we are towards a future that works for all life. She is co-creator of the Thrutopian Writing Masterclass and her new novel, Any Human Power is a Thrutopian mytho-political thriller.

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.

Marily Woodhouse is a 5th generation Californian, born and grew up in the Bay Area. She's lived in the Battle Creek watershed since 1989, but spent time in the summers at her grandmother's cabin in Butte Meadows to the south, so has a lifelong experience of the area. She started Battle Creek Alliance in 2008 and Defiance Canyon Raptor Rescue in 2016.

Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working on a ballot measure that Coloradans will be voting on in November with an organization Cats Aren't Trophies. This measure will end all hunting of Colorado's bobcats, mountain lions, and lynx.

Richard Olson is Director of the Berea Urban Farm (Berea KY), an educational market garden with the mission to increase local food security and build community through urban agriculture. He previously was a member of the faculty at Berea College teaching courses in sustainability, ecological design and environmental justice, and managed research programs on the effects of air pollution on Western forests at the US Environmental Protection Agency lab in Corvallis Oregon. He has degrees in biology, ecology, and agronomy, and personal experience in small-scale farming and horse logging.

Borislav Prodanovic is a theologian, icon painter, artist, and musician from Serbia. He studied at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Belgrade, Serbia, and at the Protestant Theological Seminary in Novi Sad, Serbia, where he received his bachelor's and M.A. degree in Theology. His research interest and vision concern Orthodox theology and praxis in contemporary times. He has been especially interested in dialectical relations, tensions and constitutive dialogues between Orthodoxy and Feminist and Liberation theologies. Currently he conducts a PhD research on clergy sexual abuse in the Serbian Orthodox Church at the Free University of Amsterdam

Randy Robbins is an award winning wildlife and landscape photographer specializing in using remote cameras to capture intimate portraits of rare and elusive wildlife. The research Randy puts into his subjects and their behaviors has made him a sought after voice in advocating for their conservation. In 2019 Randy was recognized on the California Senate floor as the California Wildlife Photographer of the Year. In 2021 Randy captured one of the first close-up, high resolution photographs of a wild gray wolf ever taken in California, a species in the early stages of re-introducing itself to the state a century after being eradicated. Randy's work has been widely published and recognized in several national and international contests and venues, most recently as the first "highly commended" image ever taken with a cell phone to be recognized in the prestigious international Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest hosted by the Natural History Museum of London. His current focus is the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, a critically threatened endemic subspecies of fox existing in only a few alpine environments at high elevation in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades.

Vaishnavi Sundar is a filmmaker from the south of India; through her films, she advocates for the rights of women and girls worldwide. Her previous film was a 4 part documentary called Dysphoric which is available on YouTube to watch. Her latest film is called Behind The Looking Glass - a documentary about the experiences of women whose partners ‘transitioned.'

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"

Junior Walk is a thirty-four year old anti-coal mining activist from southern West Virginia. Since 2009 Junior has been on the front lines of the fight against mountaintop removal in his community. He has been involved in the use of a diversity of tactics over the years, from getting arrested doing direct action work, to lobbying in D.C., to gathering scientific data and providing standing for lawsuits. These days Junior has had great success in monitoring the coal mine operations in his community to find problems that will end up costing a coal company some money. Junior's work is supported by the nonprofit Coal River Mountain Watch, to learn more about his work visit CRMW.net

Maria Powell, co-founder of the Madison Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) and author of Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison and other posthumous writings recently published on the People's Environmental History of Madison website, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and grew up next to the polluted waters of the Fox River. In 1998, Maria and her family moved to Madison, where Maria earned her PhD in environmental studies and communication and, more importantly, spent more than 20 years fighting for environmental justice in her community. In 2023, she was recognized with the Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award. Maria passed away in November 2023. Jim Powell is a longtime community organizer and environmental activist based in Wisconsin. He has worked for Citizens for a Better Environment and the Wisconsin Stewardship Network, as well as co-founding the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization in Madison with his late wife, Maria, and others. He worked for years as a community organizer developing neighborhood capacity, protecting land from development, editing and publishing a community newspaper and building a local alternative political party, Progressive Dane (County). He is co-author with Maria Powell of "Invisible People, Invisible Risks: How Scientific Assessments of Environmental Health Risks Overlook Minorities and How Commmunity Participation Can Make Them Visible," published by MIT Press.

Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film. His most recent film, recently released, is Bears in our Backyard, about how to better coexist with black bears.

Dr Stefan Eberhard is a cave scientist, explorer and photographer. He did his PhD on the hydrology and ecology of caves in southwest Western Australia. Stefan loves wild and natural landscapes, and one of his favourite places is the vast Nullarbor Plain on the southern edge of the Australian continent. He first visited the Nullarbor as a young cave diver more than 40 years ago and has returned many times since to research, explore  and document the Nullarbor's extraordinary cave systems.  Bronwen Eberhard's life and work is in Changing Narratives. Daring to be curious and seeking clarity around old ways of knowing and doing. Exploring and inviting intentionality in new ways of being and valuing.

Kim Russell has started and coached lacrosse teams for girls and women at every level - youth through international.  Her nickname, "The Hippie Love Coach" - was given to her by former players.  She is currently the Head Women's Lacrosse Coach & Director of National Teams for the US Virgin Islands and an appointed member of The Women in Sport Commission for World Lacrosse.  Kim was removed from her job as Head Women's Lacrosse Coach at Oberlin College last fall.  She was, in her own words, "Burned at the Stake"  after re-posting a post on her Instagram story in 2022 that congratulated Emma Weyant, the REAL WOMAN winner of the 500 Freestyle (When Leah Thomas, a male was given the gold medal in the 2022 NCAA 500 yd freestyle): https://www.iwf.org/female-athlete-stories/kim-russell/ Kim now spends most of her time traveling around the country advocating for girls and women as an ambassador for the Independent Women's Forum.  Kim is also the mother of four adult children, Maddie (29), Sam (27), Anna (24) and Charlie (19).

For twenty years, Zack Porter has worked tirelessly to safeguard and restore wild ecosystems across the US, from the Cascades, to the Northern Rockies, to New England. In 2020, along with a dedicated group of forest and climate activists, Zack co-founded Standing Trees to protect and restore forests on New England's public lands, and today he is proud to be the organization's first Executive Director. When he's not working for wild places out of his home base in Montpelier, VT, you'll find him exploring wildlands near and far with his family.

Stephany Seay has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Stephany learned about the continued war against wild buffalo in 1996 and has been advocating for them ever since. In response to their struggle, she moved to Montana on New Year's Day 2004, where she became the media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways after 18 years of service over philosophical differences. Stephany has nearly 20 years of experience standing with the buffalo, is an avid wildlife photographer, backcountry skier, and horsewoman. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance, and co-founder of Roam Free Nation. Stephany trusts that the buffalo have called us not just to help defend them, but to help us save us from ourselves from the unsustainable and selfish creation of industrial civilization.

Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working with Ecointegrity Alliance to raise awareness about the wholesale massacre of trees and habitat throughout the National Forests.

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.