Jay has a 38-year history of working with communities nationwide on toxics and organic land management policies that maintain ecological balance and protect biodiversity. Jay has successfully fought to stop […]

Bob Irvin has been President and CEO of American Rivers since 2011. Bob leads American Rivers in its mission to protect and restore our nation’s rivers and conserve clean water. […]

Annina Aalto is the Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Finland in Washington DC and has worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland since 2012. Prior to this […]

Anne Cleves Symmes was the horticulturist for the Beatrix Farrand Garden Association for twenty years from 1997 to 2017. She led the team that restored the Farrand designed garden in […]

Erica Ginsberg is the Executive Director of Docs In Progress, a nonprofit incubator for documentary filmmakers that has organized work-in-progress screenings for 15 years, as part of a cadre of […]

Matavele is Gorongosa National Park’s Conservation Pilot and Deputy Head of Law Enforcement. His team of rangers primarily oversees the security of the Park’s elephant population. Between 2013 and 2018, […]

Alan Dappen graduated from University of Washington Medical School in 1979 and has practiced medicine in California, Kenya, Mexico, and since 1992, in Vienna, VA. As a family doctor, he […]

One of the National Zoo’s biggest stars, Bei Bei is a 3-year-old giant panda who lives up to his name, which in Chinese means “precious” or “treasure.” For Pandamonium: A […]

Howard G. Buffett is a farmer, photographer, businessman, sworn law enforcement officer, former elected official and Chairman and CEO of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, one of the largest private charitable foundations […]

Krish Makhija is a 26-year-old Cinematographer and independent producer from Bombay, India. Formally educated in Economics, he picked up the camera when he was 18 years old to start documenting […]