Ryan Phelan is Co-founder and Executive Director of Revive & Restore, a nonprofit organization with a mission to enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species. Ryan works with some of the world’s leading molecular biologists, conservation biologists, and conservation organizations to develop pioneering genetic rescue projects. The goal is to use […]

Susan Packard Orr is co- founder and Chairman of Arreva LLC, a company started in 1986 to provide fundraising and other software to nonprofit organizations. She currently serves as a trustee of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Audubon Society, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Packard […]

Stan Rowland is Chairman and President of Tetiaroa Society, an environmental NGO based on the atoll of Tetiaroa in French Polynesia. Tetiaroa Society sponsors scientific research on issues ranging from ocean acidification and coral bleaching to shark research and mosquito control, manages island and ocean conservation projects, and runs an educational program for local schoolchildren […]

Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including Freedom and The Corrections, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including The Kraus Project and Farther Away, all published by FSG. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Co-founder of and over twenty years in senior executive positions with both the Conservation Society of Pohnpei (CSP) and the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT). Extensive experience in non-profit management, strategic planning, organizational capacity development and mentoring, fundraising, conservation financing, and endowments, community advocacy and empowerment, government relations, coastal fisheries, and protected areas management, ecosystem-based adaptation, […]

Ben Goldsmith manages London-listed investment trust Menhaden Resource Efficiency Plc which invests in businesses at the forefront of energy and resource efficiency. Previously Ben co-founded WHEB Asset Management, one of Europe’s leading sustainability-focused fund management businesses. Ben chairs the UK Conservative Environment Network as well as the Conservation Collective. Ben is also a Trustee of UK […]

Ted Haffner currently serves as a Steering Committee Member and Climate Change Goal Team Lead for Chicago Wilderness Alliance (CWA). Prior to CWA, Ted was a Landscape Architect and Climate Fellow at Openlands, a regional land trust in Chicago. He also served as Senior Associate and Project Manager with Terry Guen Design Associates (TGDA), a […]

Dr. Larry Clark is currently the principal and director of METIS, Ltd., a consulting enterprise in the area of applied biology and policy. Larry is recently retired as the director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center (2008-2019), where he also served as Assistant Director (2005-2008) and research scientist (1990-2005). Prior to […]

Dr. Claudio Campagna is a conservation researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. He has an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Biology from UCSC. He has been a field conservationist and scientist working in coastal […]

Chris Bley is a Santa Cruz based serial entrepreneur and founder of a drone innovation hub, Airspace Integration. Chris has been involved in the renewable energy industry for 20 plus years.  He founded Rope Partner in 2001, a rope access service company located in Santa Cruz which uses ropes to gain access on utility scale wind […]