Cosmos attained his Diploma in Wildlife Management in 1998 from Mweka College of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania. He has worked for the Department of Wildlife and National Parks in Botswana for over 30 years. Most of his work experience entailed Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Extension, and Environmental Education and has vast experience working with communities and school groups – both formally and informally – on matters relating to environmental conservation. He serves as a Board Member of Round River Botswana Trust.

Joaquín is the result of the mixing between the K’iche’ Mayan ethnicity and the Spanish settlers in the land known as Guatemala. He is currently getting a Ph.D. in City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. With more than eight years working with Indigenous Planning in Guatemala, Chile and the US, his research focuses on understanding the possibilities and implications of Indigenous Knowledges in Settler-State Planning

Stephen is passionate about rural issues, especially those intersecting with social and ecological justice. He has worked on several projects in Latin America to promote agroecology as a social movement and counterweight to (neo)colonialism. At present, he is helping to promote indigenous and food sovereignty in the highlands of Guatemala with the guidance and help of the local Mayan community. Stephen holds a Master of Arts from American University and the University for Peace in International Relations and Sustainable Development. He also has significant experience as an organic vegetable farmer. Steven holds a certificate in Agroecology from the University of California Santa Cruz, focusing on social and ecological justice within agriculture. He is a proud enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation.

Dennis holds a BS from New Mexico State University in Wildlife Science and an MS from the University of Montana in Wildlife Ecology. As a co-founder of Round River Conservation Studies, he served as its executive director for 32 years. He was a principal in the Great Bear Rainforest Campaign, the Wooshtin wudidaa Taku River Tlingit Land Plan, Bears Ears National Monument, Namibia Kunene Regional Ecological Analysis, and the Yukon North Slope Aullavait Anguniarvik Agreement. Dennis is a former President of The Wildlands Project. He serves as a Principal of Escudilla International, Vice President of the Taku-Atlin Conservancy, and a Pax Natura Foundation board member.