Mark Bauman CEO Virtual Wonders; Former Senior Vice President of Smithsonian; Former Chairman of National Geographic’s Cross Platform Committee and Executive Vice President of National Geographic Television; Recipient of numerous broadcast, web and print journalism honors, including an Emmy, more than a dozen CINE Golden Eagles, and various film festival awards Marc Bekoff Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Co-Founder of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Author Wade Davis Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia; National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence and Explorers Council Member; Author; Filmmaker Terry D. Garcia CEO of Exploration Ventures; Former Executive Vice President and Chief Science and Exploration Officer for the National Geographic Society Mary Ellen Hannibal Author; Citizen Scientist; Speaker Morgan Heim Photographer; Filmmaker; Scientist; Self-Proclaimed “Science Groupie” Sheril Kirshenbaum Executive Director of ScienceDebate; Director of The Energy Poll at The University of Texas at Austin; Author Stuart Leonard Pimm Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University; Director of SavingNature; Author Joyce Poole World Authority on Elephant Behaviour; Co-Director of ElephantVoices; Author Chris Rainer National Geographic Society Fellow; Documentary Photographer; Founder and Director of The Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation; Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society John Richardson Founding executive director of Blackstone Ranch Institute, which provides early seed grants and strategic advice to emergent initiatives Carl Safina First Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University; Co-Chair of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science; Founder of Carl Safina Center; Television Host; Author
