Elizabeth Weatherford is the Founder and Emeritus Director of the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She is currently the Creative Director of […]

Nicole Lederer is Chair and Co-Founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), an advocacy and communications platform for business leaders to advance strong environmental policy to grow the economy. Nicole works with […]

Eric Hutchins is the Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration Coordinator for the NOAA Restoration Center located in Gloucester Massachusetts. In this capacity he has provided technical and financial assistance to […]

Loon is a retired forestry professor and a through-hiking naturalist. He recently transferred ownership of his 2,000 acres of wilderness to be protected by The Nature Conservancy.  

Marina Isgro joined the Hirshhorn in 2020 as Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art. She is the curator of the forthcoming exhibition John […]

Peter McCoy is an author, researcher, and interdisciplinary educator working in a variety of applied mycology fields. With over 20 years of experience working with fungi, Peter is widely regarded […]

Rachael Bale is the executive editor of National Geographic’s Animal Desk, where she oversees reporting and storytelling on animals. In that role, she also manages and contributes to Wildlife Watch, […]

Laurel Chor is an Emmy-nominated freelance journalist, photographer, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer from Hong Kong. She has worked for VICE, HBO, SHOWTIME, the New York Times, the Washington Post, […]

Tim Watkins is the NPS Science Access & Engagement Coordinator. For over 20 years he has worked to advance understanding and engagement with science as a way of knowing. Throughout […]