
Mark Bauman
Award-winning media and impact communications executive; Former CEO Grid.news; Former 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.

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

Paula Pebsworth
Primatologist and Independent Researcher

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 Rainier
National Geographic Society Fellow; Documentary Photographer; Founder and Director of The Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation; Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society
