Advisory Board

Mark Bauman

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

Marc Bekoff

Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Co-Founder of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Author

Wade Davis

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

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

Mary Ellen Hannibal

Author; Citizen Scientist; Speaker

Morgan Heim

Morgan Heim

Photographer; Filmmaker; Scientist; Self-Proclaimed “Science Groupie”


Sheril Kirshenbaum

Sheril Kirshenbaum

Executive Director of ScienceDebate; Director of The Energy Poll at The University of Texas at Austin; Author

Paula Pebsworth

Paula Pebsworth

Primatologist and Independent Researcher

Stuart Leonard Pimm

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

Joyce Poole

World Authority on Elephant Behaviour; Co-Director of ElephantVoices; Author

Chris Rainier

Chris Rainier

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

Carl Safina

Carl Safina

First Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University; Founder of The Safina Center; Television Host; Author. Formerly Co-Chair of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science


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