Oliver is the Co-Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria and leads the POLIS Water Sustainability Project. He is a lead author of “A Blueprint for Watershed Governance in British Columbia.” 

Tammy is the founding editor and current publisher of dandyhorse, an arts and advocacy magazine for cyclists in Toronto. She studied journalism at Ryerson University and political science at U of T, and her work has been published and broadcast in many local and national media outlets including Spacing magazine, The National […]

Martha has been working in the photovoltaic and renewable energy industry around the world for over 10 years. She has a PhD in photovoltaic engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is currently commanding a Mars Simulation mission in Hawaii. 

Leehi Yona is a youth delegate at the COP20 United Nations climate negotiations in Lima, Peru. She was named Canada’s Top Environmentalist Under 25 in 2013.

Lisa Szabo-Jones is co-editor of The Goose, a journal of arts, environment and culture in Canada.

Jonathan Thompson is senior editor with High Country News and is based in Durango, Colorado.

Alex Speers-Roesch is a long-time activist with a background in science. He currently works on the Greenpeace Arctic campaign. 

Elise Marion has a masters in Comparative Literature from Dublin City University and a bachelors degree in English and Classics from McMaster University, and is keenly pursuing a literary career.

Daina is A\J’s LSPIRG Editorial Intern, a Communication Studies student at Laurier, and a reporter for The Cord.

Jim Harris is the author of Blindsided, an international bestseller published in 80 countries worldwide, and he speaks at 40 conferences a year around the world. jimharris.com | @JimHarris