New England

Holding a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with a completed postdoctoral fellowship in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, and >20 years of experience underwater as a PADI certified scuba Divemaster...

Michelle Estelle Lewis is founder and Executive Director of Peace Garden Project, a nonprofit focused on Environmental Justice, Food Justice and the intersectionality of the justice issues present in our society. She is also a former...

Dr. Charney uses the tools of spatial ecology to guide conservation of sensitive species and ecosystems in the face of global change and expanding human populations. Recent projects include: modeling impacts of climate change on Galapagos...

Justin graduated from Bowdoin College with an AB in Mathematics in 2003 and received his PhD in Systems Engineering with a concentration in Operations Research from Boston University in 2012. His PhD Dissertation titled 'Control Systems in...

Kyra has been a Program Officer at the Christensen Fund since 2012 supporting Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities around the world. She has managed programs in Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, Resilient Biocultural Landscapes...

Steve Blackmer is founder and executive director of Kairos Earth, a non-profit organization based in Canterbury, NH, that seeks to renew a widespread understanding of the natural world as a bearer of the sacred and to restore this awareness...

Eric is now pursuing full-time commercial fishing, primarily as a hook fisherman working bottom long-lines or 'tub trawls' for cod and haddock out of Harwich, Massachusetts. He is also a fisheries advocate for the Georges Bank Hook sector...

Jo Anne Shatkin, Ph.D. is President of Vireo Advisors, LLC, and is focused on sustainability strategies for new and nano-technology development and innovation. She has extensive experience in working with entrepreneurs to guide responsible...