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” …