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 Julia Osterman Graduate student at Stanford University 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
