Speakers

Melanie A. Adams

Director of the Anacostia Community Museum

Kunlé Adeyemi

Founder/Principal of NLÉ

Adm. Thad W. Allen

U.S. Coast Guard (retired)

His Excellency Majid Al Mansouri

Managing Director, International Fund for Houbara Conservation

Victoria Alonsoperez

Founder, Chipsafer

José Andrés

Chef & Humanitarian

Michael Anello

Executive Director, Haiti Reforestation Partnership

David Antonioli

Chief Executive Officer, Verra

Garreth Bartholomew

Teens Dream Co Lab Alumnus

Jérémy Bouyer

Medical Entomologist, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture (NAFA)

Lonnie G. Bunch III

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Paul Bunje

Co-Founder & COO/CSO, Conservation X Labs

Rhett Butler

Founder and CEO of Mongabay

Peter Byck

Professor of Practice, Arizona State University

Nantu Canelos

Local Coordinator, Kara Solar

Sean B. Carroll

Department of Science Education of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Christopher Chapman

Senior Program Officer, Verra

Faye Christoforo

Co-Director and Director of Campus Coordination, PLAN

Leslie Cockburn

Award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker

Iyanu Corniel

Strategic Partnerships Coordinator, PLAN

Alex Dehgan

CEO & Co-Founder, Conservation X Labs

Purnima Devi Barman

Conservation Biologist, Aaranyak

Cristina Eisenberg

Graduate Faculty, Oregon State University, College of Forestry

Ashley Emerson

Program Director, Health In Harmony

Julian Fennessy

Director, Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF)

Fionn Ferreira

Student Scientist, Engineer and Sustainability advocate

Christiana Figueres

Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Jonathan Foley

Executive Director of Project Drawdown

Jerome Foster II

Founder & Executive Director, OneMillionOfUs & Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Climate Reporter

Justen Garrity

Founder and President, Veteran Compost

Josh Goldstein

Director, Bridge Collaborative

Dominique Gonçalves

Ecologist, Gorongosa Project

Camron Gorguinpour

Senior Global Manager for Electric Vehicles, World Resources Institute

Ariel Gratch

Assistant Professor of Communication and Media, Utica College

Mary Hagedorn

Senior Research Scientist, the Smithsonian Institution & Director, Reef Recovery Initiative

Denis Hayes

President of the Bullitt Foundation

Katharine Hayhoe

Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University

Leela Hazzah

Executive Director and Cofounder of Lion Guardians

Sam Hoffer

Director of Verra Programs

Bob Inglis

Executive Director, republicEn.org

Alice K. Jackson

President of Xcel Energy – Colorado

Amy Johnson

Program Director of Virginia Working Landscapes at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Kirk Johnson

Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Logan Kistler

Curator of Archaeology, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History

Ronald A. Klain

Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Revolution LLC

David Kline

Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Gary Krupnick

Head of the Plant Conservation Unit, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Harriet Anderson Langford

Founder and President of The Ray

Christina Larson

Global Science & Environment Correspondent, Associated Press

Julia Lohmann

Founder, The Department of Seaweed

Lúcia G. Lohmann

Executive Director, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation

Thomas Lovejoy

Conservation Biologist

Evan Lutz

CEO & Co-Founder, Hungry Harvest

Brian Mandell

Division Director of Curriculum and Communications, Smithsonian Science Education Center

Jamie Margolin

Founder & Co-Executive Director, Zero Hour

Charlotte McCurdy

Designer

Peter McGrath

Coordinator, TWAS Science and Diplomacy Initiative

Bill McKibben

Author, Environmentalist and Activist

Rodrigo Medellín

Senior Professor of Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Kira Mileham

Species Survival Commission Director of Strategic Partnerships, IUCN

Cristina Mittermeier

Co-Founder & Managing Director, SeaLegacy

Steven Monfort

John and Adrienne Mars director of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Bruno Monteferri

Director of Conservamos.org/SPDA

Kristin Gilliss Moyer

Senior Investments Partner, Mulago Foundation

Fred Nelson

Executive Director, Maliasili

Tia Nelson

Climate Change Program Director, Outrider Foundation

Carol O'Donnell

Director, Smithsonian Science Education Center

Sanjana Paul

Co-founder and Executive Director, Earth Hacks

Tim Popa

Communications Director, NBW

Varshini Prakash

Executive Director & Co-Founder, Sunrise

Queen Quet

Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and Former High Commissioner for Human Rights

Philip K. Ryan

Member, Board of Directors, Swiss Re Ltd.

Mateus Kambale Sahani

Epicentre/MSF

Enric Sala

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and Founder, Pristine Seas

Igor Salazar

Senior Vice President - South America Hunt Oil Company

Cristián Samper

President & Chief Executive Officer, Wildlife Conservation Society

Libby Schaaf

Mayor, Oakland California

Justin J. Shaifer

Founder and Executive Director of Fascinate Inc.

Vandana Shiva

Seed, Food and Environmental Scientist

Sabrina Sholts

Curator of Biological Anthropology, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Leslie Silverglide

Co-founder + CEO of MIXT

Carlos Souza

Remote Sensing Scientist and Associate Researcher at Imazon

Jared Stabach

Ecologist and Program Coordinator, Smithsonian’s Movement of Life

Tambra Raye Stevenson

Founder and CEO, WANDA: Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture

Ellen R. Stofan

John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum

Will Stolzenburg

Independent Wildlife Journalist

Tristram Stuart

Founder, Feedback and Toast Ale Ltd.

Fred Swaniker

Founder and CEO, African Leadership Group

Rocky Sanchez Tirona

Vice-President for the Philippines and the Pacific Islands, Rare

Brooke Tully

Behavior Change Marketer

Fred Tutman

Patuxent Riverkeeper

Merissa Underwood

Miss Montana 2020

Oliver Utne

Founder, Kara Solar

Sam Van Aken

Artist and Associate Professor, Syracuse University

Maria Teresa Vargas

Executive Director of Fundación Natura Bolivia

Danni Washington

TV Host & Science Communicator

James Watson

USAID Diplomat in Residence, Morehouse College

Bill Weir

CNN Anchor & Chief Climate Correspondent

Rose Whipple

Indigenous Rights Activist

Matt Willey

Artist/Founder, The Good of the Hive

Kimberly Winter

NatureWatch National Program Manager, U.S. Forest Service

Ali Velshi

MSNBC Anchor

Tashka Yawanawá

Chief of the Yawanawá people in Acre, Brazil