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Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Photography, Resilience, Storytelling, Teamwork, Adventure, Culture, Health

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a British-Swedish photojournalist who has contributed to National Geographic magazine and other leading editorial publications. She is also an author, poet, TED Fellow and 2016 Harvard Nieman Fellow. Taylor-Lind has worked in Ukraine for over a decade, covering issues relating to women, war and violence. Her first book, "MAIDAN - Portraits from the Black Square," documents the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution and was published by GOST Books the same year. Her poetry focuses on contemporary conflicts and the experiences she cannot photograph. In 2022, her first collection, "One Language," was published in the U.K. by Smith|Doorstop. In 2023, she received the Canon Female Photojournalist Award for her long-term reporting from eastern Ukraine, and over 100,000 people visited her exhibition 'Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline' at the Imperial War Museum.

Barton Seaver

Adventure, Climate Change, Culture, Health, Resilience, Storytelling, Sustainability

Barton Seaver is a chef who has dedicated his career to restoring the relationship we have with our ocean. It is his belief that the choices we are making for dinner are directly impacting the ocean and its fragile ecosystems. Seaver has manned the helm of some of Washington, D.C.’s most acclaimed restaurants. In doing so, he brought the idea of sustainable seafood to the nation’s capitol while earning Esquire magazine’s 2009 “Chef of the Year” status from acclaimed food writer John Mariani. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Seaver has cooked in cities all over America and the world. Having been bitten by the travel bug, Seaver found work in southern Spain at a small family restaurant. Their casual, ingredient-based cooking style would prove to be an important influence in his perception of food as an essential part of community. When the off-season arrived, Seaver hopped on a boat to Morocco and landed in the small seaside village of Essaouira. There, he took part in generations-old fishing methods, becoming a part of a community whose survival was directly linked to the oceans. This had a huge impact on his belief that sustainability is, at its root, not only an ecological matter, but also a humanitarian one. While sustainability has largely been assigned to seafood and agriculture, Barton’s work expands far beyond the dining table to encompass socio-economic and cultural issues. Locally, he pursues solutions to these problems through D.C. Central Kitchen, an organization fighting hunger not with food, but with personal empowerment, job training, and life skills. Barton has been lauded as a leader in sustainability by the Seafood Choices Alliance and was named a fellow with the Blue Ocean Institute. Barton has joined the board of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment. Together with National Geographic, the Center is partnering with hospitals and health care providers in the Greater Boston area to educate them about healthier and more sustainable food service opportunities. He is the author of For Cod And Country (Sterling, Spring 2011), a book of recipes that inspires ocean conservation through the experience that we all share—dinner. In addition, Barton is working on television and online shows that will engage consumers by telling stories everyone can relate to, whether they are preparing a meal or preparing to eat it.

Dan A. Buettner

Adventure, Health, Science, Storytelling

Dan Buettner is an internationally recognized researcher, explorer, and New York Times best-selling author. He founded Blue Zones®, a company that puts the world's best practices in longevity and well-being to work in people's lives. Buettner's November 2005 National Geographic article on longevity, "The Secrets of Living Longer," was the cover story of one of the magazine's top-selling issues in history and made him a finalist for a National Magazine Award. His books The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest and Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way, appeared on many best-seller lists and were featured on Oprah. In 2009 Buettner and his partner, AARP, applied principles of "The Blue Zones" in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and successfully raised life expectancy and lowered health care costs by some 40 percent. Buettner is currently working with Healthways to implement the program in the beach cities of Los Angeles. Their strategy focuses on optimizing the health environment instead of individual behavior change. Buettner also holds three world records in distance cycling and has won an Emmy Award for television production.

Jason Baldes

Climate Change, Culture, Conservationism, Health, Leadership, Resilience, Science, Storytelling, Wildlife, Sustainability

Jason Baldes is a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in land resources & environmental sciences from Montana State University where he focused his efforts to restore bison/buffalo to Tribal lands. Baldes is the senior buffalo program manager for the National Wildlife Federation and founder/executive director of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative. He serves as vice president on the board of the InterTribal Buffalo Council and board of trustees of the Conservation Lands Foundation. Jason is adjunct faculty at the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming.

Mike J. Libecki

Climate Change, Conservationism, Adventure, Culture, Health, Leadership, Photography, Resilience, Science, Storytelling, Sustainability, Teamwork, Technology, Wildlife

Mike Libecki is a National Geographic Explorer, an honor received from The Expeditions Council of the National Geographic Society. He was also named a 2013 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for his commitment to exploring and climbing in the world’s most remote places. He has completed more than 100 major expeditions that have taken him to over 125 countries—from Afghanistan to Antarctica, Greenland to Guyana, Siberia to Socotra Island and everywhere in between. His adventures support science, conservation and humanitarian projects, as well as shed light on powerful, emotional stories that inspire us all to take care of our world. Libecki is a producer, director, videographer, photographer, conservationist, humanitarian with his own nonprofit and a leader of cutting-edge science teams. He is also a math and tech nerd at heart, using the latest technologies—virtual reality, 3D imagery and artificial intelligence among others—on his expeditions to share stories of the planet’s magic, power and beauty. Mike has also received numerous grants and awards. He has appeared on PBS, the National Geographic Channel, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel and more.Mike Libecki is a National Geographic Explorer, an honor received from The Expeditions Council of the National Geographic Society. He was also named a 2013 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for his commitment to exploring and climbing in the world’s most remote places. He has completed more than 100 major expeditions that have taken him to over 125 countries—from Afghanistan to Antarctica, Greenland to Guyana, Siberia to Socotra Island and everywhere in between. His adventures support science, conservation and humanitarian projects, as well as shed light on powerful, emotional stories that inspire us all to take care of our world. Libecki is a producer, director, videographer, photographer, conservationist, humanitarian with his own nonprofit and a leader of cutting-edge science teams. He is also a math and tech nerd at heart, using the latest technologies—virtual reality, 3D imagery and artificial intelligence among others—on his expeditions to share stories of the planet’s magic, power and beauty. Mike has also received numerous grants and awards. He has appeared on PBS, the National Geographic Channel, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel and more.

Ronan M Donovan

Conservationism, Culture, Leadership, Photography, Storytelling, Wildlife, Teamwork, Health

Ronan Donovan is a National Geographic Fellow, wildlife biologist, and conservation photographer whose work seeks to mend the rift between modern humans and the more than human world. Through visual, written and spoken stories, Ronan strives to capture the intimate rhythms of family bonds, shared challenges, and ancient behaviors that call us back to our wild selves. His photography and film reveal that the boundaries we imagine between ourselves and nature are illusions—reminding us, as Rachel Carson wrote, that “man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

Ryan M. Carney

Science, Health, Conservationism

Ryan Carney is a 2017 National Geographic Emerging Explorer and an associate professor of digital science at the University of South Florida. From his previous days fronting a punk band on Warped Tour to interning at Google, Carney blends his diverse backgrounds in art, music, science and technology to help inspire the next generation of STEAM students in and out of the classroom. Carney's paleontology research brings flying dinosaurs "back to life" using X-ray imaging, computer animation, and virtual and augmented reality. He also develops digital tools for predicting and preventing outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases, through novel integrations of artificial intelligence, citizen science and geographic technologies. Carney's research has been published in Nature and featured in The New York Times and popular science books, and his art and science have appeared in museums and National Geographic Magazine. Carney has bachelor's degrees in in art and honors biology from University of California Berkeley, a Master of Business Administration and Masters of Public Health from Yale University, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Brown University.

Steve Ramirez

Health, Resilience, Technology, Science

Steve Ramirez creates and deletes memories in the brains of rodents. His eventual goal: to use his current work to wipe out bad memories and enhance good ones in humans to help alleviate symptoms associated with PTSD and depression. He is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Boston University and a former Junior Fellow at Harvard University. Ramirez received his B.A. inneuroscience from Boston University and earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience at MIT. He has received the Smithsonian’s American Ingenuity Award and been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 list.

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