Carissa Aoki is an applied ecologist working at the intersection of landscapes, disturbance and risk. She is particularly interested in bringing anti-racist principles to the teaching of science, including the use of interdisciplinary stories to bring non-traditional content into the curriculum.
Alec Armstrong received his PhD in Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. He received a BS in Environmental Science from The Ohio State University.
Pocock’s current project is the development of an area of land that is off-limits to humans. Titled No Man's Land, the project is a park for the non-human where nature is its own legal entity, and humans are not allowed to enter. He’s interested in the global movement of the Rights of Nature and how Nature can be recognised as having "legal personhood".