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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner is a writing fellow at Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, AlterNet, Architectural Digest, Travel & Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, and other publications.
Tara Lohan is a professional environmental journalist and editor.
Vicky Bond is a veterinary surgeon, animal welfare scientist, and the former president of The Humane League.
Monique Mikhail is the campaigns director of the agriculture and climate finance program at Friends of the Earth.
Christine Jacobson is a cultural heritage professional.
Valeria Falabella is a director at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Leslie Alan Horvitz is an author and journalist specializing in science. He serves as the science and tech editor at the Observatory.
Ruhi Bhasin is a senior journalist and features editor with the Independent Media Institute.
Thomas Patteson is a musicologist, writer, and musician whose work explores music technology, electronic music, improvisation, and the history of sound.
Andrew McConnell Stott is a professor in the English department at the University of Southern California specializing in British popular culture from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Debra Merskin, PhD, is a professor of media studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon and is a co-founder of Animals and Media.
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune is a climate adaptation planner, community organizer, educator, and author.
John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies.
David Fridley is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.
Marilyn Kroplick is the president and executive director of <u>In Defense of Animals</u>.
Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist, and researcher. He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook: Cultivating Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs from Urban Backyard to Rural Farmyard and the co-founder of NAVCS-Certified Veganic. His writing has appeared in CounterPunch, Countercurrents, and LA Progressive, among others.
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a renowned African American writer and social reformer. He escaped from slavery as a young man, wrote a bestselling autobiography, and was a figurehead of U.S. abolitionist movements.
Samantha Sudol is a medievalist, writer, and editor.
Colin Greer is the president of the <u>New World Foundation</u>. He is the author of three books of poetry, including most recently ''<u>Defeat/No Surrender</u>''.
Madeline VanArsdale is a linguist, writer, and editor.
Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer.
Michael Baldwin is an independent researcher focused on ancient knowledge systems, site alignments, and the symbolic and energetic decisions behind how ancient cultures shaped their environments.
Mathilde Lépine is a co-founder of Prehistory Travel, which educates people of all ages on topics relating to human prehistory.
Elaine Siu is an author, activist, and innovator devoted to shifting the world away from animal agriculture.
Sharon Kumar is a technology editor at The Observatory, where he provides analysis and critical perspectives on the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
LeesaMaree Bleicher advocates using trauma-informed therapeutic approaches.
Noam Chomsky is a legendary linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachussets Institute of Technology.
Carole Crumley is the director of the <u>Integrated History and Future of People on Earth</u> (IHOPE) initiative and professor of anthropology (emerita) at the <u>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</u>.
Mouna Hashem, PhD, is an international development consultant.
Lucy Goodchild van Hilten is a writing fellow at }}, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She has served as assistant editor of Microbiology Today and senior marketing communications manager for Life Sciences at Elsevier. She holds an MSc degree in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Imperial College London.
Anita Krajnc is executive director of the Animal Save Movement and global coordinator of the Plant Based Treaty initiative.
Vanessa Chang is the director of programs at Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.
Cameron Edwards runs <u>Still Water Microsanctuary</u>, a small-scale rescue for birds and tropical fishes.
Sarah Parker Ward is an end-of-life strategist and death tech futurist.
Ryan Mitchell shares his experience of the off-grid lifestyle.
Richard Heinberg is senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of ''Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival''.
Andrew Califf is an archaeologist and anthropologist with a special interest in environmental conservation and Indigenous rights.
Dr. Harriet Fraad is a mental health counselor and hypnotherapist whose writing and multimedia programs cover the interactions between global capitalism and personal life in the United States.
Jessica Pierce is a bioethicist and author of numerous books.
Anika Burgess is a writer, photo editor, and author of ''Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History''.
Nicholas Humphrey is a British theoretical psychologist whose work explores the evolution of consciousness, perception, and social intelligence.
André Leu is the international director of Regeneration International and a leading advocate for regenerative agriculture worldwide.
Mwesigye Robert is the founder of the Rejoice Africa Foundation.
Claudio Campagna is a senior marine conservation consultant for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
April M. Short is a co-founder of the Observatory, where she is the Local Peace Economy editor. She is also a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.
Reynard Loki is a co-founder of the Observatory, where he is the environment and animal rights editor.
Kate Petty is an educator, writer, yoga teacher, and activist.
Jeremy Rifkin is and economic and social theorist, author, and political advisor.
John Divinagracia is a writer and novelist.
Yasmine Seale is a writer, poet, and literary translator specializing in Arabic literature, mythology, and cultural history.
Bridget A. Lyons is a surfer, writer, editor, teacher, and creative consultant.
Mikhala Kaseweter, MSc, advances right relationships with nonhuman animals through her work at the Better Food Foundation.
Gregory Tate is a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of St. Andrews.
Dr. Raphael Calel is a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
Jon Crabb is an editor at <u>British Library Publishing</u>.
Mohammad Golam Sarwar is a doctoral researcher at SOAS University of London.
Jennifer Barckley is the vice president of communications at The Humane League.
Robin Scher is a freelance writer and journalist based in South Africa.
Adam S. Green is a lecturer in sustainability at the University of York.
Danna Smith is the founder and executive director of Dogwood Alliance.
Keith C. Heidorn was a meteorologist and climatologist.
Katherine Dolan is a writer, editor, and researcher at the Independent Media Institute from Dunedin, New Zealand. She has held previous posts as a senior writer for Fairfax Media Custom Publishing in New Zealand and Lifestyle Magazine in Moscow, and as a copy editor for the U.S. news site NSFW Corp.
Carrie P. Freeman, PhD, is a professor of communication at Georgia State University and is a co-founder of Animals and Media.
Zahara Nabakooza is an advocate for children’s rights and climate action.
Claire Preston is a professor of early modern literature at Cambridge, specializing in the intersection of 17th-century science and rhetoric. Renowned for her award-winning work on Sir Thomas Browne and Edmund Spenser, she explores how the “New Science” and the era’s information overload shaped English prose and the cultural history of the natural world.
Fabiana Maizza is an assistant professor in anthropology at the Federal University of São Paulo.
Freddie Clayton is an investigative journalist with the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, focusing on environmental themes, specifically water and sanitation issues worldwide.
Katie Schmidt is the associate director of the national dam removal program at American Rivers.
Richard E. Blanton is professor emeritus of anthropology at Purdue University.
Alessandra Korap Munduruku is a Munduruku Indigenous woman leader from Indigenous Reserve Praia do Índio in the Brazilian Amazon. She is a member of Pariri, a local Munduruku association, as well as the Munduruku Wakoborûn Women’s Association. In 2020, Alessandra won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work defending the culture, livelihoods and rights of Indigenous peoples in Brazil.
Brian Jonathan Garrett is an instructor of philosophy at Kwantlen Polytechnic University whose research explores the history of biology and its connections to metaphysics.
Lane F. Fargher-Navarro is the director of research at the Past Foundation, Ohio State University.
A.D. Manns is a historian and writer.
Jeff Feinman is a veterinarian and molecular biologist.
Lorraine Chow is the stewardship and outreach coordinator at the Santa Fe Watershed Association.
Marjorie Hecht is a longtime magazine editor and writer with a specialty in science topics. She is a freelance writer living on Cape Cod.
George Prochnik is an award-winning author and essayist whose work explores psychology, intellectual history, biography, and culture.
Lisa Jones-Engel is a primatologist.
Eugene Simonov is the international coordinator of the Rivers without Boundaries Coalition.
Gunnar Rundgren is a farmer, author, and organic agriculture pioneer who has worked across farming, certification, and global food policy since the 1970s.
Andrew deCoriolis is the executive director of Farm Forward where he advocates for safe, healthy, and humane animal farming.
Tina Casey has been writing about sustainability, the global energy transition, and related matters since 2009. She is a regular contributor to CleanTechnica and TriplePundit, where she also focuses on corporate social responsibility and social issues.
Nika Dubrovsky is an artist, writer, and founder of the <u>David Graeber Institute</u> and the <u>Museum of Care</u>.
Daniel Klem Jr. is the Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology and director of the Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College.
James R. May, Esq. is Distinguished Professor of Law and Founder of the Global Environmental Rights Institute at Widener University Delaware Law School.
Adam Alexander is an award-winning film and television producer, and the author of ''The Seed Detective''.
Sophie A. H. Osborn is an award-winning environmental author and wildlife biologist whose work has focused on bird conservation across the Americas.
Cherene de Bruyn is a South African–born archaeologist investigating the location of clandestine graves using forensic ecology and remote sensing approaches.
Eric Laursen is an independent journalist, historian, and activist. He is the author of ''<u>The People’s Pension</u>'', ''<u>The Duty to Stand Aside</u>'', ''<u>The Operating System</u>'', and ''<u>Polymath</u>''.
Irfan Shah is a writer, film historian, and researcher specializing in pre-cinema media archaeology and the origins of motion pictures.
Alan Michael Collinge is a student debt activist and founder of <u>StudentLoanJustice.org</u>.
Alexia Angeli is the founder of the company Prehistory Travel, which educates people of all ages on topics relating to human prehistory.
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, muckraker, and political activist. He was famous for his 1906 muckraking novel, ''The Jungle''.
David Graeber was an anthropologist, activist, and bestselling author.
Linda M. Nicholas is an adjunct curator of anthropology at the Negaunee Integrative Research Center at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
Thea Applebaum Licht is a writer and researcher.
Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware and co-founder of Homegrown National Park.
Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944) “was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.” She “is best known for her 1904 book ''The History of the Standard Oil Company''.” (Source: Wikipedia.)
Brittany Michelson is an animal rights activist, writer and former teacher.
Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist. He is a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College, where he also serves as the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and the director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement.