Stacy Alaimo
Distinguished Teaching Professor in English, University of Texas at Arlington. Author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space and Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self.

Maxine Burkett
Maxine Burkett is an Associate Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i and from 2009-2012 served as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP), at the University of Hawai'i.

Juan Carlos Galeano
Spanish Poetry and Amazonian Studies, Florida State University. Author of Amazonia and Folktales of the Amazon.

Wes Jackson
President of the Land Institute. Author of Nature as Measure (2011) and Consulting the Genius of the Place (2010).

Antonia Juhasz
is a policy analyst, author, and journalist focusing on fossil energy. Author of Black Tide, The Tyranny of Oil , and The Bush Agenda.

Rob Nixon
Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor and Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy.

Jeffrey Thomson
Poetry and Nonfiction, University of Maine Farmington. Author of Birdwatching in Wartime and Renovation.

Daniel Wildcat
American Indian Studies, Haskell Indian Nations University. Co-director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center and author of Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge and (with Vine Deloria, Jr.) Power and Place: Indian Education in America.

Cary Wolfe
Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University. Author of Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory and What Is Posthumanism?

Donald Worster
Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of U.S. History, University of Kansas. Author of Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Dust Bowl: the Southern Plains in the 1930s, and A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir.