Founder, Climate Disobedience Center Tim DeChristopher disrupted an illegitimate Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction in December of 2008, by posing as Bidder 70 and outbidding oil companies for parcels around […]

Aria, along with her husband, founded a non-profit corporation called The Action Center for Education and Community Development Inc. Their divisions are tri-fold. 1. (Community) They provide services for at […]

Institution: University of Miami, Professor and Chair Martin Grosell is the lead PI and director of RECOVER. RECOVER activities will provide an integrative understanding of impacts of oil exposure on coastal […]

Dr. Rita R. Colwell is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Chairman and Chief Science Officer, […]

Institution: University of Georgia – Athens, Department of Marine Sciences Dr. Joye began her work on the microbiology and geochemistry of Gulf of Mexico cold seeps in 1994, first studying […]

Ian Michler is a safari operator, specialist wilderness guide, consultant and environmental photojournalist. He has lived and worked across Africa for the last 25 years. His feature articles, diaries and […]

With his warm smile and affable manner, it’s difficult to believe that Michael was recently released from a federal penitentiary. When his mother fell ill with cancer in 2008, Michael […]

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 […]