Dr. Stanley Temple became interested in birds and conservation as a young child, with a particular interest in preventing extinctions. With a focus on avian ecology, Temple earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. He spent 32 years teaching and researching at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the faculty position previously held …

Kathleen Falk learned her love of land early, roaming the land in Southeastern Wisconsin. She started a conversation club when she was about 7 years old. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School, she was Co-director and General Counsel for a leading statewide environmental advocacy organization, then named Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade, now called …

Russ Feingold is a lawyer, politician, former United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 – 2011 and Wisconsin State Senator from 1983 – 1993, serving as the United States Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2013 – 2015. Russ is currently the president of …

Tia is internationally recognized as a tireless champion for environmental stewardship and climate change education. She spent 17 years with The Nature Conservancy in government relations, as a policy advisor for Latin America, and later as the first director of the Global Climate Change Initiative. For this work, she received the EPA’s Climate Protection Award …

Dr. Patty Loew is an award-winning author, professor in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, retired journalist in public and commercial television, and an enrolled citizen of Mashkiiziibii, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. Patty is an outspoken advocate for the rights of Wisconsin’s tribal communities and has led the Tribal …

Dr. Patricia McConnell has been a committed environmentalist since the early 1970s, when she volunteered for the first United Nations Youth Conference on the Environment, and the Institute of Ecology at UW-Madison. She received her PhD in Zoology (now Integrative Biology) from UW-Madison in 1988, where she taught “The Biology and Philosophy of Human/Animal Relationships” …