Susan Clayton is the Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Dr. Clayton’s research examines humans’ knowledge and attitudes about the environment, the effects of climate change on mental health, and issues of social and environmental justice. She was an early proponent of the field of conservation psychology, which draws on psychological research and theory to promote environmental conservation and a healthy relationship between humans and nature. Her Ph.D., in social psychology, is from Yale University. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology; she is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association (APA). Clayton is a lead author on the forthcoming Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focusing on human impacts of climate change.

Dr. E. Scott Geller, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor, is completing his 50^th year as a teacher and researcher in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech, and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems. He has authored, coauthored, or edited 51 books, 88 book chapters, 39 training manuals, 272 magazine articles, and over 300 research articles addressing the development and evaluation of behavior-focused interventions to improve human welfare and life satisfaction. Dr. Geller has received lifetime achievement awards from the International Organizational Behavior Management Network and the American Psychological Foundation. In 2011, The College of Wooster awarded Professor Geller the Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters. He and his daughter, Krista S. Geller, Ph.D. have co-founded the teaching and consulting firm—GellerAC4P, Inc.—to spread actively caring for people (AC4P) principles and applications worldwide, see www.gellerac4p.org and www.ac4p.org. 

Dr. Hoffman has been broadly engaged in the field of climate change adaptation for almost two decades. She uses targeted research, direct engagement, and capacity development to help groups and organizations integrate climate considerations into conservation, planning, and natural resource management efforts. She has helped to deliver workshops and trainings to more than 2,000 people on topics including decision analysis, scenario planning, climate change vulnerability assessment, and adaptation planning. Project and training locations have spanned Latin America, Oceania, Africa, and North America, with partners and participants including charitable foundations, non-governmental organizations, citizens’ groups, and national, state, local, and tribal governments. She contributed to an award-winning vulnerability assessment guidebook and the United States National Climate Assessment, and is author or co-author of several books and reports, including Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World. She has a PhD in marine ecology, but when environmental problems seem daunting she calls on her undergraduate degree in geology for a long-term perspective that keeps her chipper.

Dr. Christine Leuenberger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University and a Fulbright Specialist. She has published various edited volumes and books and her work has appeared in many academic journals, edited volumes and popular news outlets. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a National Science Foundation Scholar, and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow (STPF) at the U.S. Department of State and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Her current interests include the politics of borders, migration and climate change and using the social sciences to enhance behavioral change in regards to climate change.

Julie Shumway has been an educator in K-12 education for over 15 years. Ms. Shumway has taught students of varying ages, including adults, in the U.S. and China. She has spent the past ten years as a school administrator in a Montessori school setting and earned her AMI/NAMTA certificate in Montessori Adolescent Studies in 2019. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she is currently the lead teacher for adolescents at the Montessori Children's House of York, Inc. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in 2003 from Middlebury College and her Master’s degree in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum in 2015 from Drexel University.