2023 Speakers

MD, PhD, MPH; Assistant Professor; Center for Community Health Impact, UTHealth School of Public Health - El Paso Campus

Youth Program Director, Lincoln Hills Cares

University Distinguished Professor and Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law

Award-winning journalist and poet

Senior Data Analyst at Tesla | Sustainability and Diversity Advocate, Designer, Business Leader

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder

Previous Youth Director of Earth Guardians & Poet

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Global environmental photographer and mountaineer

FAIA, Founder & Principal at Barrett Studio Architects in Boulder, Colorado

Faculty Director, Center for Sustainability; Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver

Environmental Studies Professor & Chair, CIRES Fellow

Senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at the University of Colorado Law School

Visual, Audio and Performative Artist; Professor of Art, University at Buffalo

CEO, David Clark Cause / CEO, Right Here Right Now Global Climate Alliance / CEO, Art for Amnesty

National Director, NAACP Youth & College

Teaching Professor

Director, Peace, Conflict and Security Program, University of Colorado Boulder

Filmmaker, Co-Director of NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts, and Associate Professor of Cinema and Critical Media Practices (CU Boulder)

Founder and Publisher, Boulder Reporting Lab

State Director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado

Architect, fuentesdesign, Boulder, Colorado

Chief Research Officer and Deputy Laboratory DIrector, NREL, Golden Colorado

Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.

Director of the Colorado River Program for The Nature Conservancy

President, Foundation for Systemic Change

University of Colorado Boulder, Environmental Design

Colorado State University

Energy Professional • Author • Thought Leader

Current Ted Scripps Fellow; Climate Editor, TED

Environmental Educator & Director of Programming, Black Girl Environmentalist, Washington, D.C.

Director of Climate Initiatives, City of Boulder

Professor, Environmental Design, CU-Boulder & Sr. Advisor, U.S. Department of State

Colorado River District; General Manager (retired)

Managing Director, Lincoln Hills Cares, Denver

Co-Host, Filmspotting • Film Critic, Think Christian

CEO/ Manager of Denver Water

Montezuma Land Conservancy/Telluride Institute Cross-Cultural Programs Manager

Former CEO and President of Patagonia Inc.

Chief Marketing Officer at Natural Habitat Adventures

University of Colorado, UCCS Associate Professor of Human Physiology and Nutrition

Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center

Independent Journalist, Author of the Forthcoming “Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought and the Delusion of Controlling Nature”

Interdisciplinary artist and professor of studio art at the University of Denver

Finance correspondent, Reuters

Congressman

Chief Meteorologist @ ABC Denver7, Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and Grandpa

Associate Professor of Composition & Director, Entrepreneurship Center for Music; CU Boulder

Pel-Ona Architects and Urbanists, Boulder / College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver

Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow

Paul Sears Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College

Point Reyes Energy Partners

Executive Director of the Colorado Ag Water Alliance

Vice President, Process & Ops Global Thermostat

CIRES/NC CASC/ESIIL

Secretary, Mothers for Nuclear Board of Directors

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Human Rights Officer and Environment team leader at United Nations Human Rights.

Senior Fellow, Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center

Boulder Congresswoman

Professor and University Research Chair, University of Waterloo

Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs • Former Diplomat, U.S. Department of State

Correspondent, NPR News

Chef

Assistant Teaching Professor, Social Responsibility and Sustainability Division, Leeds School of Business, and Faculty Director for Leeds Global Initiatives

Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Resilience, the Global Engineering Residential Academic Program, and the CU Boulder Climate Innovation Collaboratory

Executive Director, Colorado Energy Office State of Colorado

Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.

Filmmaker & Assistant Teaching Professor | Associate Faculty Director of the Brakhage Center for Media Arts | Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts | University of Colorado Boulder

Senior Manager | Deloitte Consulting LLP

Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Chief Sustainability Officer University of Colorado Boulder

Founder, Institute for Planetary Security

Senior Communications Strategy & PR Consultant, JAWalton Communications

Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility (CESR) at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business

Managing Director - Corporate Engagement, The Nature Conservancy

Associate Professor, University of Washington