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Emily Brower

is a journalist based in Northern California. She has experience reporting in both Southern California and the Central Coast as a travel and music journalist for Pure Nowhere, Fifty Grande

Gabriela Barzallo

is a journalist and media entrepreneur based between New York City and Latin America. Her work focuses on human rights, the environment, social justice, etc with an emphasis on solutions.
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Norell Edwards

is a scholar, educator, and communications consultant for nonprofit organizations. Originally from New Rochelle, New York, she is now an assistant professor of English and the 75th Anniversary Endowed Professor

Erin Aubry Kaplan

is a contributing writer to the New York Times opinion page and a former weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, the first African American in the paper’s history

Amber X. Chen

is a freelance journalist who covers environmental justice. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, the Guardian, and other publications. You can find her on Instagram

Suhaly Bautista-Carolina

(she/they/we/us) is an Afro-Dominican herbalist, artist, cultural worker, and community organizer whose work lives intentionally at the intersection of plant power and people power. Through her practice, Moon Mother Apothecary,

Darby Saxbe

is an associate professor of Psychology at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Becky Tipper

is a writer of fiction and non-fiction and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Manchester. She has worked on several collaborations with social researchers, aiming to communicate

Jim Robbins

is a veteran journalist based in Helena, Montana. A regular contributor to Yale Environment 360, he has written for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, and numerous other publications.

Colleen Hagerty

is a California-based journalist telling narrative stories through video, print, and social media. She specializes in covering disasters, including deeply-reported features, and dives into how policies and technologies impact mitigation,

Chase Iron Eyes

‘s distinguished career fighting for the civil rights of Native Americans includes serving as lead local counsel in the Dakotas for the Lakota People’s Law Project, co-founding the Native news

Melissa Bennett

, M.Div. is a descendant of the Umatilla, Nimiipuu, Sac & Fox, and Anishinaabe Nations. She is a transracial adoptee, a.k.a. a Lost Bird, who grew up on an onion

Lucy Sherriff

is a British journalist based in Los Angeles with more than 12 years of experience covering stories around the globe. She directs and produces documentaries, makes podcasts, and covers breaking

Sanket Jain

is an independent journalist and documentary photographer based in Western India’s Maharashtra state. He is a senior People’s Archive of Rural India and an Earth Journalism Network fellow. His work has

Peter Grinspoon

, M.D. is a primary care physician and a cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the

Junauda Petrus

is a creative activist, writer, playwright, and multi-dimensional performance artist who is born on Dakota land, West-Indian descended, and African-sourced. Her work centers around Black wildness, futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness,
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Cherizar Lee Crippen

is a Black and Indigenous bisexual troublemaker, mother to many plants, a fur baby, and a very resilient fish. She is based out of the South, spending her time developing

Ricardo Lobato Felizola

is a Brazilian journalist based in Italy with a master’s degree in communication sciences from NOVA University of Lisbon. He has a special interest in climate change and the environment

Owen George

is an activist, athlete, traveler, and outdoor enthusiast. They are currently pursuing a graduate degree in Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability at Antioch University New England, after graduating with

John Logan

is a professor and the Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University.

Kendall Covington

, a 2022 graduate of Liberty University, is a freelance writer and copy editor.

Hermes Falcon

(he/they) is an intern for Youthcast Media Group and a sophomore at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.
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Derek P. Siegel

is a sociologist and feminist scholar who examines how inequalities manifest at every stage of human reproduction, including family formation, parenting, and abortion. They are a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology
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