Charles is a sharp-witted, pensive man born and raised in DC. Since his brother received a lifetime jail sentence for murder, Charles thinks daily about the implications a single wrong […]

Steve Coleman is co-founder and president of Washington Parks & People, DC’s award-winning community green space alliance, which has worked for 25 years to help under-served DC neighborhoods advance park-based […]

Sonal Shah is Professor of Practice and the founding Executive Director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation. Sonal, an economist and entrepreneur, has spent her career focused […]

S. Elwood York, Jr – Washington Office Wilderness Program Leader, U.S. Forest Service. Elwood, as he most affectionately called is a 30 + year veteran civil and criminal trial attorney […]

James Reed has taken audiences on breathtaking journeys with films such as Disneynature’s Chimpanzees, Bears and Monkey Kingdom, as well as programs Nature Shock and Shark. Reed’s impressive portfolio of series and films, which span topics such as […]

Operations Director at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival After spending most of her life on the east coast, Christie followed the call of the mountains to Jackson, WY in the […]

During the past twenty years, Mr. Oelman has dedicated himself exclusively to nature and more specifically macro insect photography. He, along with his assistant Christian Lopez, travel to remote rainforests […]

Jerry Aronson’s films include the 1978 Academy Award-nominated film, The Divided Trail, which follows the lives of four Native Americans who lived in the urban heart of Chicago.  The film […]

David Harp has been photographing the delights and dilemmas of the Chesapeake Bay for nearly 50 years. Along with writer Tom Horton, he has produced 5 books about the Bay […]

Tom Horton is a native of Maryland S Eastern shore who has been writing about Chesapeake Bay for more than half a century. He currently teaches environmental studies at Salisbury […]