Rebecca Nelson is a Professor at Cornell University, in the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) and the Department of Global Development.  She serves as SIPS’ associate director for research.

Janet Hering is the retired Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and Lausanne.

The film, Saging the World, is a short documentary produced by Rose Ramirez, Deborah Small, and the California Native Plant Society to foster awareness and inspire action for white sage. 

Benjamin K. Sovacool is the Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. 

Caj Matheson is a Councilman for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and the Director of the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources. In these positions, his primary role is to represent the Tribe in policy matters with leaders from federal, state, and other tribal governments.  

Dr. Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, is an internationally recognized conservation biologist, a past president of the Ecological Society of America, and the founder and former director of the University of Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative.