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