is an award-winning neurodivergent documentary photographer with Nakota and Dakota ancestry based in Tacoma, Washington. Her latest photography project, “Matriarch,” was funded by the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program grant. Find

is an associate professor of psychology at Hope College and a mother of two. She researches character development among parents of young children (in a Zulu South African community) and

is a writer, theatre artist, and audio producer in the Mountain South. Currently, Myers works as a Climate Solutions Fellow with Grist, and before that she was a reporter with

(she/they) is a writer, climate resilience planner, and climate activism volunteer. She was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, California, and currently lives in New York City. This

(she/her) is based in San Francisco, where she serves as head of creative content for The Nature Conservancy in California and teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Berkeley City College. More

(she/her) is a socioecological storyteller amplifying character-driven stories that help heal our human relationships to ourselves, each other, and our planet. As a writer, creative producer, and film director, her

(he/him) works with the Western Reserve Land Conservancy in Cleveland, Ohio, on urban green space projects. He’s previously written for local newspapers in Georgia and Alaska.

(she/her) is a Portuguese-Hawaiian speculative fiction storyteller, artist, translator, and cultural critic with roots in the Big Island, Bay Area, and Pacific Northwest. She’s the author of the Utopia Award-nominated

is a freelance journalist who reports for HumAngle Media. He is also a translator (in Kanuri and Hausa), in addition to working in peace and dialogue, and community development. He

is a writer, artist and world-builder based in Oakland, California. They are currently an Adjunct Professor at California State University East Bay, teaching narrative illustration and comics. They hold an

is committed to a world animated by unhu (ubuntu)—the understanding that collective and individual wellbeing are one and the same. She is a mama, writer, International Coaching Federation certified coach,

is committed to cultivating joyful, trusting relationships for loving power. She is a facilitator, teacher, and strategist who helps social justice leaders and their groups infuse complex work and lives

is the LGBTQ+ reporter for The 19th, focusing on transgender rights, incarceration, politics, and public policy. Kate has conducted deep-dive investigations into transgender prison abuse and homicides for NBC News.

is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, musician, and recovering social justice lawyer with Hyderabadi Muslim roots. She is the author of the poetry collection City of Pearls (Upset Press, 2019) and

is the executive editor of the California Health Report, which partners with communities across the state to share ideas for making our world more equitable. She speaks English, and is

has been organizing, writing, and building movements in red states for the last 20 years, and working across lines of race, class, culture, gender, sexuality, and faith. All In is her first

is a journalist in Alaska, and the former food and agriculture fellow at Grist. He previously reported for the Chilkat Valley News, the local newspaper in Haines, Alaska. His writing

is a writer-editor who has worked in corporate, media, and nonprofit sectors for such entities as BET and the Education Trust. She is a member of The Authors Guild, and

began her journalistic career in the 1980s writing for Accent L.A., an independent monthly newsmagazine covering the Black community in Los Angeles. In 1992 she began writing for the Los

is co-founder and chief visionary officer of the Youth Mentoring Action Network (YMAN), a youth power-building organization located in California’s Inland Empire. She currently serves as a board member at

(they/them) is a Black trans immigrant from Jamaica. They are currently a Southern culture worker, medicine maker, and filmmaker based in rural North Carolina. Joie Lou is the executive director