Frank Forencich is a biocentric guy trying to make a go of it in an anthropocentric culture. He's studied human biology, martial art, and traveled to Africa to experience the human ancestral environment. He's the author of several books about health and the human predicament including "The Sapience Curriculum" and "Beware False Tigers."
Genevieve Gluck is a feminist essayist and researcher who in recent years has primarily been looking at the influence of pornography on gender identity. She hosts the podcast Women’s Voices, and has written for Feminist Current and Graham Linehan’s blog, and on substack: genevievegluck.substack.com
Tipakson Manpati is from northeast Thailand. She is a researcher on the Mekong River and its tributary environment.
Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film.
Carolyn Emms is a founding member of Rainforest Reserves Australia, based in Lake Barrine Far North Queensland, which she manages alongside a small group of passionate conservationists with different skill sets, including on-the-ground habitat restoration experts. Here Rainforest Reserves operates the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility in partnership with the Department of Environment and Science caring for orphaned and injured cassowaries, rehabilitating them until they are ready for release into the wild. She is also passionate about revegetation and with the help of her team has planted over 100,000 native trees to create two wildlife corridors, allowing wildlife to continue seed dispersal and expanding their habitat.
Anastasia Klose has recently joined Rainforest Reserves Australia as a researcher, copywriter and website designer to support their work. She is a contemporary artist who is now refocusing her passion on wilderness conservation.
Julia Barnes is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of Sea of Life and Bright Green Lies. Her current work focuses on opposing deep sea mining.
George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.
Annette Smith of Danby, Vermont has been working to stop inappropriate development and the destruction of the earth in Vermont since 1999 when she co-founded Vermonters for a Clean Environment to stop a gas power plant and pipeline project. Working with Vermonters throughout the state, she has successfully stopped destructive wind and solar, extractive industries, and industrial facilities from further damaging Vermont. Wind developers tried to shut her down (up?) by filing a complaint with the Vermont Attorney General’s office that led to a criminal investigation, after which she was named Vermonter of the Year by the Burlington Free Press. A litigious solar developer is currently attempting to gain access to her emails in a Federal court case.
MICHAEL LEVITIN is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall Street
Journal. He started as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for the
English language newspaper Bolivian Times. He earned his master’s degree from the
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and later worked as a freelance correspondent
in Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture and climate change. His writing has
appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Financial Times, Newsweek, Time and the Los
Angeles Times, among other publications. His debut novel, Disposable Man, was published
in 2019. He teaches journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area,
where he lives with his partner and daughter.
Robin Winkler was a commercial lawyer until 2001 when after having read some books, been diagnosed with a life threatening illness and time to reflect, flipped to the social and environmental justice side, gave up USA citizenship and founded Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association,Taiwan. Since that time he has been mostly involved in trying to understand: how to stop the decimation of different strains of humans, other species and beings, and transcendence. Favorite authors include Paul Shepard, Rachel Carson, Derrick Jensen, Peter Kropotkin and Vandana Shiva.
