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.

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."