Patricia Fara is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge and the author of several books on science, empire, and the history of scientific ideas.
Ronnie Cummins was the cofounder and director of the Organic Consumers Association and a longtime advocate for organic agriculture and food-system reform.
Iván Moure Pazos is a historian of art and senior lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela whose work explores the intersections of literature, architecture, and visionary art.
Sam Davis is a staff scientist at the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), a nonprofit that uses science, litigation, policy analysis, and strategic communications to promote policies that protect climate, ecosystems, and people.
“Anna Julia Cooper (née Haywood; 1858–1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, Black feminist leader, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.” (Source: Wikipedia)
Lucas Thompson is an academic specializing in contemporary U.S. and Anglophone literature, aesthetics, and film, publishing extensively on 20th-century fiction and ordinary language philosophy.
Dr. David Hastings is a distinguished oceanographer and educator with extensive expertise in marine geochemistry, climate change indicators, and microplastics research.
Marc Bekoff is an ethologist, behavioral ecologist, compassionate conservationist, and author. He is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Chris Smaje has co-worked on a small farm in Somerset, southwest England, since 2007. Smaje is the author of A Small Farm Future, writes a blog at about farming, ecology, and politics, and is a featured author at resilience.org.
Josh Fisher is a writer and educational theorist whose work explores how knowledge and understanding emerge through shared meaning, social coordination, and cultural transmission.
D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science, writer, and professor at Princeton University whose work explores attention, perception, technology, and the history of human knowledge.
Sandra Ericson is an author and educator. She chaired the Consumer Arts and Science Department at City College of San Francisco for nearly three decades.
Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (1864–1922) was an American journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Nellie Bly. She feigned insanity in order to write an exposé about a mental institution. (Source: Wikisource).
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.
Matthew Ponsford is a London-based journalist and producer who has written for Thomson Reuters, CNN International, Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent and Vice. Follow him on Twitter @mjponsford.
Damon Orion is a writer, journalist, musician, artist, and teacher in Santa Cruz, California. His work has appeared in Revolver, Guitar World, Spirituality + Health, Classic Rock, and other publications. Read more of his work at DamonOrion.com.
Gary M. Feinman is a MacArthur curator of Mesoamerican, Central American, and East Asian anthropology at the Negaunee Integrative Research Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Laurel Sutherlin is the senior communications strategist for Rainforest Action Network. He is a lifelong environmental and human rights campaigner as well as a naturalist and outdoor educator with a passion for birds and wild places. Follow him on Twitter @laurelsutherlin.
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.)
Karlos K. Hill is a historian and author working to advance public understanding of racial violence and memory through scholarship, education, and community engagement.
Karen Davis, PhD, (1944–2023) was the president and founder of United Poultry Concerns. She was an award-winning animal rights activist and the author of numerous books.
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.
Nital Jethalal is a policy analyst and economist. He currently serves as strategist and policy advisor for the Plant Based Treaty and also oversees economics and policy research for Plant Based Data. Nital is also the president of VegTO and a director at the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank.
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.
Cherene de Bruyn is a South African–born archaeologist investigating the location of clandestine graves using forensic ecology and remote sensing approaches.
Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York.
