Silvia Ribeiro is the Latin America Director of the ETC group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration). She is based in Mexico.

She is a researcher, writer and educator on the impacts of emerging technologies on society and particularly on the vulnerable and marginalized peoples and communities. With ETC Group, Ribeiro has participated in the negotiations of several UN Treaties on environment, climate, biodiversity and food, as well as a speaker and participant in many civil society events. In the last decade, ETC Group has produced a variety of documents on climate change, carbon dioxide removal and other geoengineering proposals. Ribeiro has critically followed the international debate and developments of carbon dioxide removal and geoengineering as well as its proposals for governance at UN systems for well over a decade. She has authored/co-authored several of ETC's reports on geoengineering and other emerging technologies.

Visit https://www.etcgroup.org/ to learn more about their work. 

Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect, environmental activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was executive director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. Nnimmo first became an activist after oil conflicts with the Shell Petroleum Development Company escalated into a massacre in 1990, leaving 80 people dead and nearly 500 houses destroyed in the village of Umu Echem. Since then, he has become one of Africa’s leading advocates for the environment and human rights. Bassey has stood up against multinational corporations in his country and the environmental devastation they leave behind for both people and the planet. He was one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment in 2009. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2012, he was awarded the Rafto Prize. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of York, UK, in 2019. He serves on the advisory board and is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank and advocacy organization.

Dipti is the Climate Justice and Energy Coordinator of Friends of the Earth International. For the last four years, she has worked on fighting dirty energy and false solutions. She has been an activist for over 15 years, since age 20. She lived for many years with indigenous and farmer communities fighting against destructive large dams on the Narmada River in central India. She has also worked alongside Latino farmworkers in California's agricultural Salinas Valley, to demand clean drinking water for these communities. She has worked against racism and war, and in support of immigrant and civil rights. She has a Masters in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. Justiça Ambiental works with communities on environmental issues such as the cutting down of forests, pollution, dams, oil exploration and people's access to clean water. Justiça Ambiental, which was founded in March 2004, works on issues of water quality, dam monitoring, environmental policy, renewable energy, pollution, and climate change.

Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort. He has been actively involved in student and community environmental justice organizing since high school in 1990. He's taught hundreds of workshops at college campuses and activist conferences throughout the U.S. His grassroots support work has helped many communities achieve victories against power plants, landfills, incinerators, medical waste facilities and other polluting industries. His work includes supporting communities with research, writing, programming, organizing, networking, public speaking, legal work, policy analysis, advising and more. Find his full bio here.

Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland (he/him) is an anti-colonial scholar-activist of mixed/mestizo heritage with Indigenous Mesoamerican and Euro-American ancestry. He is currently Chair and Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School. His work focuses on how Indigenous and decolonizing approaches intersect with other counterhegemonic and transformative paradigms to address environmental challenges, climate crises and social injustices. His work centers the revitalization of Indigenous cosmovision-based communal land governance practices as keys to resurgence and the reconstitution of sacred territories through land rematriation. He leads the Indigeneity, Decolonization and Just Sustainabilities Initiative of the Tishman Environment and Design Center

Ana's research and professional practice focuses on environmental and climate justice, and she works directly with EJ organizations and coalitions to support the advancement of these causes. Ana works on a range of related issues including state and federal environmental justice policies, climate justice and renewable energy policies, land use and zoning tools for environmental justice, zero waste, cumulative impacts, and goods movement. Prior to joining The New School, Ana served as the Environmental Justice and Planning Director for the Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey. Ana currently serves as the Principle Investigator for the national Environmental Justice Movement Fellowship program housed at the TishmanCenter which recently launched with its inaugural cohort under the title, Ripe for Creative Disruption. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Ironbound Community Corporation, New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance (NJEJA) and Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA). Ana represents NJEJA and TEDC, as a signatory member of the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform. Ana was appointed to the Fourth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) where she co-chairs the Equity Workgroup.

(Dine’ and Dakota) Tom is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. Tom has been recognized for his achievements throughout the past 40 years as a change maker within the environmental, economic, energy and climate justice movement. From the strength of his community organizing and leadership he brought the local issues of the rights of Indigenous Peoples related to the environmental protection of land, water, air and health to the national and international levels. From his participation and leadership in the First National People of Color Environmental Justice Leadership Summit in 1991 in Washington D.C., to the 2010 World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and to the recent co-formation of the United Frontline Table and its People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy, and its Indigenous Plank, he has been on the forefront of key moments fighting for systemic change. 

He co-produced an award-winning documentary film in 1999, Drumbeat for Mother Earth, addressing the effects of the bio-accumulation and biomagnification of toxic chemicals in the natural food web and bodies of Indigenous Peoples. In 2007, Tom co-founded of the Indigenous World Forum on Water and Peace lifting up the spiritual-cultural values and ethics of water policy. Tom initiated the first international Indigenous conference on the rights of Mother Earth in 2012 at the Haskell Indian Nations University and serves as a member of the Global Alliance of the Rights of Nature. Tom wrote the IEN Indigenous Principles of Just Transition as an organizing tool of using Indigenous Original Instructions as the foundation for building sustainable and healthy Indigenous communities. 

Tom is a recipient of numerous awards including the 2015 Gandhi Award and in 2016 was presented Sierra Club’s highest recognition, the John Muir award.* Tom is a Sun Dance leader and active in his ceremonial responsibilities and is a father, grandfather and great grandfather.

*Sierra Crap - John Muir and his friends have been subject of a SC campaign outing them as racists and not honoring First Nations this summer of 2021 - Google it

Lucien Wabanonik is an elected member of his community of Lac Simon. He still fluently speaks the language of his People and is living by his culture. He was placed at a very young age at a boarding school and survived the 2 years he spent in that facility. When coming back to his family, he was raised in his culture and identity and values of his people.

In the past years, he occupied positions in his nation such as Grand chief of his nation regrouping seventh communities. He also has been a chief and director general of his community in Lac Simon. Lucien was one of the representatives accompanying the regional chief speaking in the United Nations for the First Nations from Quebec, Canada. He is also a negotiator for his nation in one major file (protection of the moose). And right now, he is the spokesperson for the coalition regrouping 5 communities and 3 different nations fighting against Hydro-Quebec and the provincial government of Quebec.

Read more about Lucien Wabanonik: My people were robbed, ignored by Hydro-Quebec, Quebec government.