Jessica M. DeWitt

Jessica DeWitt is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States, editor, and digital communications strategist. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2019. She is an executive member, editor-in-chief, and social media editor for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). She is also a working board member of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society, Girls Rock Saskatoon, and a core organizer of Showing Up For Racial Justice Saskatoon – Treaty Six. A passionate social justice advocate, she focuses on developing digital techniques and communications that bridge the divide between academia and the general public in order to democratize knowledge access.

Madeleine Jubilee Saito

Madeleine Jubilee Saito is a cartoonist + illustrator living on Duwamish land in Seattle, Washington. As an artist, she makes intimate, poetic comics about the environment and the sacred, which appeared in the bestselling All We Can Save anthology and were recognized in Best American Comics 2019.

She is a Christian and an anti-capitalist, and currently works as the creative director & operations lead at The All We Can Save Project, where she leads social media, newsletter, and branding + digital campaigns (among other things)

Jacqueline L. Scott

Jacqueline L. Scott is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, Social Justice Education. She is a fellow at the Safina Center. Her research is on the perception of the wilderness in the Black Canadian imagination. In other words, how to make outdoor recreation a more welcoming and inviting space for Black people. It is part of a large project on race, place and nature.

Scott is also a writer and speaker on race and nature. Her work has appeared in The Conversation, Canadian Broadcasting Corp, and Spacing. She has been interviewed by Canadian Broadcasting Corp, British Broadcasting Corp, and La Presse.

Contact: Twitter: @BlackOutdoors1. Blog: Blackoutdoors.wordpress.com

Ramya Swayamprakash

Ramya is an Assistant Professor in Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies at the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale MI. A transnational and interdisciplinary environmental scholar who focuses on rivers, dredging, and the place of nature in the Great Lakes, Ramya’s research has been published in academic and public-facing avenues. She takes tea and dredging (not necessarily in that order) seriously. Ramya has also published work on dams in South Asia. As a survivor of domestic abuse and as a single parent, Ramya’s scholarship is driven by a commitment to social/ecological justice and equity.
Website: www.riverborders.com

Diana Valencia-Duarte

Diana Valencia-Duarte is a PhD in History from the University of Exeter. Her research interests range on peasant cultures, socio-environmental conflicts and agroecological food systems, using social sciences and/or historical methods, with emphasis in oral memory, environmental history, gender/generational analysis and decolonial, participative, and interdisciplinary approaches by principle. Her studies have been focused on Colombian peasantries, but she is, and has been, also involved in research and educational projects related with Black communities in the UK and Nigeria.