Erik Molvar is a wildlife biologist and directs WildEarth Guardians' Sagebrush Sea Campaign from an office in Laramie, Wyoming. He has been working on sage grouse conservation issues for the past 14 years.

Gary Wockner coordinates the Save the Colorado River Campaign whose mission is to protect and restore the Colorado River and its tributaries from the source to the sea.  Gary has worked in government, academia, and advocacy for 30 years, and is an award-winning environmental activist and writer based in Fort Collins, Colorado

Con Slobodchikoff is an animal behaviorist and conservation biologist. He is a professor at Northern Arizona University, where he studies referential communication, using prairie dogs as a model species. Much of his recent research has shown a complex communicative ability of the Gunnison prairie dog alarm calls. In early 2008 he formed the Animal Language Institute, to create a place where people can find and share research in animal communication.

Culum Brown is an Australian Research Fellow, Associate Professor at  Macquarie University, Editor for Animal Behaviour and Assistant Editor of  the Journal of Fish Biology. For years he has studied the behavioural  ecology of fishes with a special interest in learning and memory.

Anne Keala Kelly is an award winning, Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist whose works focus primarily on the early 21st century Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Her feature length documentary, Noho Hewa, has been screened and broadcast internationally and is widely taught in university courses that focus on indigenous peoples, the Pacific, and colonization.