Victoria Paykar

• Approaches the goal of creating holistic, electricity- and public-based transportation solutions to combat fossil fuel emissions through a racial justice lens

• Oregon Transportation Policy Manager for Climate Solutions

• Previously an Environmental Equity Fellow at the Greenlining Institute and the Transportation Equity Associate at the Center for Sustainable Energy

• Increased climate benefits for minority communities through policy and program reforms

Santiago Ortega Arango

Santiago’s occupations currently are:

• Director at Emergente Energía Sostenible in Medellin, Colombia

• Freelance Journalist who covers stories about the environment and sustainable energy

• Assistant Professor in the school of Ingenieria de Antioquia located in Envigado, Colombia

Henry Red Cloud

• Founder of Lakota Solar Enterprises, which is based on the Pine Ridge Reservation

• LSE works to install solar heating systems in Native American households

• Manages the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center, where tribal members can receive training on renewable energy and sustainable building practices

Richard Hamblyn

Hamblyn is an environmental writer and historian whose works include:

• The Invention of Clouds (2002)

• Terra: Tales of the Earth (2009)

• The Art of Science: a Natural History of Ideas (2011)

• Clouds: Nature and Culture (2017) and companion volume, The Sea: Nature and Culture (2021)

• Illustrated books written with the UK Met Office, edited The Storm (1704), and Penguin Classics (2005)

Minal Pathak

• She is environmental scientist working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• A faculty member at the Ahmedabad University, where she helps coordinate the Global Centre for Environment and Energy.