Tiego Jordan Mpho is a Botswana-based conservation and sustainable development practitioner with more than two decades of experience in community conservation, transboundary natural resource governance, environmental policy, and climate resilience. Born and raised in the Okavango, he began his career working with communities in the Okavango River Basin, strengthening community participation in transboundary governance through OKACOM.

He has held senior program and policy positions with Conservation International, UNDP, IUCN, IWMI, Climate Parliament, and Wild Entrust Africa, including Policy and Program Manager for the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa, covering twelve African countries, and manager of the UNDP/GEF Ngamiland Sustainable Land Management Project. He is now Executive Director of the Fauna Conservation Trust of Ngamiland.

He holds a BSc in Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Botswana, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education, and an MSc in Integrated Water Resources Management from the University of Zimbabwe. He has been a Climate Reality Leader since 2014.

Monametsi Sokwe is a Botswana-based development professional with over 15 years of leadership experience across governance, monitoring and evaluation, and community-based natural resource management. He provides leadership, governance, finance, and human resources consultancy to community trusts across Botswana.

He previously led the Southern African Council of NGOs, the Botswana Council of NGOs (BOCONGO), and Ngamiland Council of NGOs, where he mobilised funding and forged strategic partnerships with government, academia, and civil society. As a former Senior Project Management Specialist with USAID Botswana, he managed a credit guarantee portfolio. He holds a BA in Economics and Public Administration from the University of Botswana and postgraduate training from Berkeley and Derby.

Aleks is a tracker, artist, filmmaker, and founder of Nanofasa Conservation Trust, working for over a decade alongside Indigenous communities across Africa, particularly the Ju/’hoansi San.

She founded the Barefoot Academy in Namibia and the Wisdom Academy in Botswana to protect an irreplaceable library of Indigenous ecological wisdom—knowledge that has co-evolved with wildlife and wilderness for tens of thousands of years. The Academy is a living system where tracking arts, plant medicine, oral histories, land stewardship and ancestral cosmologies are practiced, taught, recorded and adapted for a changing world.

Her wider work includes a vision of connecting ecosystems and a Word Forest in Kenya, developed with the Yaaku community to combine language revival with ecological restoration.

Her work is guided by a simple belief: we can replant trees, but we cannot replant Indigenous Peoples. When culture disappears, ecology disappears with it.

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.

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.

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

The first twelve summers of Alvey’s life were spent in the northern LaSal National Forest, where her father was a district ranger. She had an instinct for exploring and experiencing wild places. Her intrigue for science developed in the Utah mountains and continues to influence her work as a mixed-media artist. Trent is a founder of Round River Conservation Studies.

As a multimedia artist, she uses paint, assemblage, printmaking, sculpture, and sound in her work. She often uses science as a foundation for her collaborative explorations.  Alvey is included in the following collections: Utah Arts & Museums, Westminster College, Salt Lake County, and Springville Museum of Art. Alvey was given a Salt Lake City Mayors Artist Award in 2011 and chosen as one of Utah 15 Most Influential Artist’s by Artists of Utah in 2013. Trent is a founder of Round River Conservation Studies.

Jerry holds a BS in biology from The Evergreen State College, an MS in communications from the University of Utah, and an MS in biology from Utah State University. Affiliated with Round River Conservation Studies, he worked on the Mexican Wolf, Border Cat, Great Bear, Namibia and Taku projects. Most recently he has been investigating the life-history traits of frogs in the Solomon Islands, Melanesia, and assisting in setting up monitoring protocols in mid-coast British Columbia, Canada. Jerry serves as an Adjunct Professor with Central Washington University.

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 and serves as Vice President of the Taku-Atlin Conservancy, and a Pax Natura Foundation board member.