Ame's interests include social and environmental justice, sustainable development, socioecological systems, power, values, and trauma and how they relate to collective environmental governance.

Ryan Williams is an archaeologist, museum curator, and professor. With deep interests in the South American Andes, he studies climate change in the human past, as well as economic and political interactions in communities.

Asheley R. Landrum ​is an associate professor and science communication researcher at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.