Anna Jane Joyner is a climate story consultant and the founder and director of Good Energy. With over fifteen years of experience in climate communications, she is driven by a passion for storytelling - and helping people find courage in the face of climate change. Anna Jane has worked relentlessly to establish bridges between artists, musicians, faith communities, Southerners, young audiences, and the climate movement. As a strategist at the intersection of climate and entertainment, she produced film and music videos and organized over 300 global partners around a youth-mobilization campaign for the 2015 Paris Climate Summit. Her work has been featured by Rolling Stone, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Glamour, Deadline, CNN, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and more.

Anna Jane’s prior experience spans state and national climate campaigns for “Beyond Coal,” water pollution, federal climate policy, voting rights, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and more. Her efforts to engage evangelicals on climate – including her own father, a prominent pastor – was featured in Years of Living Dangerously, an Emmy-award winning Showtime documentary series on which she collaborated with Ian Somerhalder and Lesley Stahl. For the last five years, Anna Jane has co-hosted “No Place Like Home,” a podcast that gets to the heart of climate change through storytelling.

EJ Baker (they/them) is a visual designer and strategist. They are a co-founder of Maybe Ventures, an art and strategy collective focused on envisioning more just, sustainable, and beautiful new worlds.

Via Maybe Ventures, EJ is Creative Director of Good Energy. In this role, they lovingly craft and steward Good Energy’s visual manifestations, from the playbook itself to our launch event.

Previously, EJ spent five years at design and innovation firm IDEO, bringing the tools of beauty and empathy to CEOs and civil servants, from nonprofit startups to Fortune 50 companies.

EJ’s work has been featured in Fast Company, Variety, Typewolf and Fonts in Use. Hailing from the forests of upstate New York, they now live amongst the urban cottontails and sidewalk dandelions of Somerville, MA.

Carmiel is an award-winning short-story writer, novelist, and TV writer, staffing on the hit Amazon series, UNDONE, for which she wrote a climate-related episode in Season 2. She is the Head Writer and Executive Editor of the Good Energy Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change, and she specializes in climate fiction in the TV and podcasts spaces. Carmiel is a Film Independent Fellow and the author of the critically-acclaimed novel The Suicide of Claire Bishop, which Publisher's Weekly calls a "tour de force.” Currently, she is showrunning a climate sci-fi podcast series for Wondery, and she is adapting a feminist cli-fi novel for TV. Her writing has appeared, among other places, in The Guardian, LA Review of Books, and on NPR. She also teaches climate short film classes for youth and adults, as well as climate writing workshops along the LA River. She spent four years on the road at writing fellowships, including time on a ship in the Arctic to study and write about the climate crisis. And she once tried her damndest to open a Planned Parenthood in Mississippi.

Allison Begalman is the CEO of YEA! Impact and co-founder of the Hollywood Climate Summit. She’s the creator of USC School of Cinematic Arts' first-ever social impact screenwriting lecture "Call to Action: Writing Stories of Relevance and Social Impact”, a recipient of the Roddenberry Impact Award, a participant in the Social Justice Partners Los Angeles 2022-2023 Systems Change Accelerator and is part of the inaugural 2023 Walking Softer Young Leaders Award cohort. Outside of social impact, Allison writes for television and film. She has worked at companies like CAA, Annapurna Pictures, as well as on shows such as Sony TV's Preacher and Hulu's Monsterland. She is represented by Alison Mann at Fourth Wall Management.

Rae Binstock is a playwright and screenwriter whose work explores climate themes on both a personal and cosmic level. Her plays include the climate short-play cycle That Heaven’s Vault Should Crack (The New Group, Lark Development Center, T. Schreiber’s Studios), land of no mercy (Landing Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, Princess Grace finalist), WALKERS (The Shelter, O’Neill Conference semifinalist, Jerome Fellowship finalist), and Blue Skies. (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival). Rae’s pilot Homecoming was selected for the 2020 WriteHer List, and she is a two-time semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab. Rae served as the Writers’ Assistant on both FX Networks’ FOSSE/VERDON and Apple+’s SCHMIGADOON. Rae is a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Lark Development Center Fellow at the Lark, and a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. In addition to cowriting and researching the Good Energy Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change, Rae spent four years as a lead comms volunteer for the Sunrise Movement. She lives in Los Angeles with her cats, Lila and Garlic. (Adena Chawke, Greenlight Management; Danny Alexander and Joe Fronk, APA)

Aishah-Nyeta Brown is a storyteller, creative, researcher, and advocate for vulnerable populations. She holds a B.A. in Climate Change and Society From George Mason University, a fine arts degree, and was part of the inaugural and prestigious cohort of the Global Sustainability Scholars. Aishah-Nyeta has been studying climate change since the age of 17 and studied briefly at the University of Pretoria in South Africa while exploring geospatial technologies. Brown hopes to creatively bring awareness of environmental injustices to the world with the knowledge and literacy of sustainability. Using her musical and fine arts background as a springboard, Brown has a knack for innovation in the climate change field, which requires a transdisciplinary understanding of the world. She is diligent in making a global impact on communities and how they learn about our changing climate—amplified through her work as a Gen-Z advisor for the Climate Mental Health Network.

Tamen is an entrepreneur, researcher, and published author who builds data-driven products and leads strategic projects for Fortune 100 and 500 companies in healthcare, consumer goods, and technology.

She is the author of several scientific articles published in the BMJ and JMIR, and books on topics spanning end-of-life care, digital health, love, and the future of health. In 2023, she co-authored the best-selling book ‘Healthy No Matter What: How Humans Are Hardwired to Adapt’ published by Penguin Random House, which was featured by McKinsey and Fortune. Tamen has also written for TIME magazine.

She is currently the co-founder and CEO of Vivenxia (pronounced: vee-ven-see-ah), a health venture studio based in Los Angeles, California, which supports organizations that seek accelerated growth through innovative business development, strengthens budding ventures to maximize their success; and builds its own in-house health-centric startups.

Bill Lischak is a highly experienced entertainment and media executive. Previously, he has been a senior executive, including COO and/or CFO, for such companies as Johnson Management Group, Pixomondo, OddLot Entertainment (now Madison Wells Media), and First Look Studios. He is an executive producer of films such as Hell or High Water, Ender’s Game, and Drive, among others. He has sourced, structured, and managed a multitude of project and corporate financings, both debt and equity; has created and managed joint ventures with companies such as Lionsgate and eOne; and has played a pivotal role in the sale, partial sale or acquisition of many business ventures, particularly
in the media and entertainment industry. He has been responsible for broad areas of operations including accounting, finance, legal, and HR, and has played a key role in reporting and communication with stakeholders, including in the public company arena. He is a CPA with a master's degree in taxation, attended NYU’s film school, and is a featured speaker at various film and television industry seminars.

Bruno Olmedo Quiroga is a design researcher, storyteller, and strategist from Cochabamba, Bolivia with a background in Engineering Psychology. He founded an educational technology startup that was part of an innovation lab, and worked at IDEO as a Design Lead — where he led global research programs and design teams across multiple industries. Bruno has a knack for making the intangible tangible and for making difficult conversations feel fun.

Alisa Petrosova leads the consulting program and climate research for Good Energy and has spearheaded bold storytelling projects at the intersection of Hollywood and climate with studio executives, showrunners, screenwriters, and organizations like Spotify, Wondery, and CBC.

Alisa has also worked on research teams for TV/films that reach millions of people, including Extrapolations on Apple TV+ with showrunner Scott Z. Burns. In addition, Alisa has convened global conversations on climate with renowned leaders like Naomi Klein, Mary Robinson, and Bill McKibben.

Previously, Alisa was the Creative Director of the Climate Imaginations Network under renowned climate scientist Dr. Kate Marvel. She has an MA in Climate and Society as a graduate of the inaugural class of the Columbia Climate School and also a BFA in Film at The Cooper Union.

Jes is a nonbinary actor, artist, and climate justice activist. They hold a BFA in Acting from CalArts and an interdisciplinary MA from Columbia University’s Climate School. They’re also a Fulbright Scholar, who studied the intersection of arts and climate at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and as a Fellow at the Research Institute. They’ve also interned in Congress on Capitol Hill and have organized across the grassroots, community organizing, at LA’s frontline vaccination clinics, on U.S. Congressional and Senate campaigns, and at the United Nations Climate Conference. Along with practicing art as a prefigurative praxis to nurture community and enact cultural transformation for material liberation, they’re passionate about movement and love parkour and dance!

Rania Beatrice has worked as a Democratic operative for nearly twenty years, lending her expertise across political, non-profit, legislative strategy and crisis management. For Bernie Sanders’ 2016 run for president, she served as Iowa Communications Director, the National Director of Surrogates and then as Deputy Campaign Manager. In addition to Rania’s expertise in strategy and communications, her portfolio includes over fifteen years of experience in conflict resolution, mediation, and organizational development. Her firm, Batrice and Associates, has worked for social justice through a variety of avenues, collaborating with organizations including Our Revolution, the Arab American Institute, March for Our Lives, StudentsMarch.org, March For Science, Sunrise Movement, and the Freedom Project.

A people person at heart, and a project manager by trade, Melissa has spent her career creating optimized and efficient environments in social impact organizations. She spent many years working in creative agencies and brings a deep passion for environmental justice to her role on the board.

Lindsay Arden Firestone is a producer and advisor working at the intersection of impact and entertainment. Currently, Lindsay works at Bloomberg Philanthropies, managing special content projects for the foundation, and at Bloomberg Associates, a pro-bono international consulting service founded by Mike Bloomberg, working with cities to harness the power of their local creative sectors to enhance partner cities' equity and inclusion efforts and foster economic development opportunities.

Lindsay served as co-producer on From the Ashes (2017), which explores the lives and issues behind the "war on coal," and Paris to Pittsburgh (2018), which celebrates how Americans are demanding and developing real solutions in the face of climate change. Both films were released by National Geographic Documentary Films and produced by Radical Media in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies. As part of the outreach efforts for both projects, she helped orchestrate a worldwide campaign that screened the film with mayors, local activists, and students in an effort to educate and engage audiences on opportunities in renewable energy and just transition efforts. Lindsay has also served as an advisor on award-winning films including STEP (Dir. Amanda Lipitz), When Claude Got Shot (Dir. Brad Lichtenstein) and The Conductor (Dir. Berna Wegenstein).

Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin is a Clinical Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches and directs the Filmmakers Legal Clinic, which provides pro bono legal services to filmmakers and video journalists as well as training on legal issues to filmmakers in the United States and around the world. The Clinic represents clients on a range of issues critical to any film production, including the drafting and negotiation of talent, crew, composer and producer agreements; investor agreements, depiction releases; music, film clip, and artwork licenses; legal opinion letters on fair use, First Amendment issues; entity formation and other advice depending on the context of the film and the needs of the client.

She is also the Founding Director of the Program on Leadership at the Heyman Center for Corporate Governance, as well as the Director of the Center for Visual Advocacy. Previously, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin served as Dean of Students and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School. She teaches in the areas of intellectual property, transactional law, corporations, negotiation, and leadership. As a leading film lawyer, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin has lectured around the world on issues related to copyright, production, distribution and licensing.

Mary Anne Hitt is Senior Director of the foundation Climate Imperative. Mary Anne has over 25 years of experience building and leading effective campaigns and organizations, and is a frequent media spokesperson. Prior to joining Climate Imperative, she was with the Sierra Club for 12 years where she served as National Director of Campaigns and also worked for a decade as director of the Beyond Coal Campaign, recognized as one of the most successful environmental and climate campaigns in history, which retired 2/3 of US coal plants in a decade and helped usher in the clean energy era.

Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is an internationally recognized environmental advocate and climate strategist focused on people and the planet. Her niche in environmental work is developing high impact programs and multimedia
campaigns to dismantle privilege and increase opportunities for vulnerable populations to access healthy air, clean energy, and a toxic-free economy at the local, regional and national levels.

Melissa Sun has been working at the intersection of culture and impact marketing for 20+ years. Currently, she is Head of Brand Marketing & Partnerships at Sierra Club, where she also founded Sierra Club’s Arts + Entertainment Council -- with members including Jared Leto, Olivia Munn, and Darren Aronofsky. Previously, Melissa was Vice President at Rosenfield Media Group, managing custom global marcom strategies for brands and talent including Breaking Bad, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Danny DeVito, George Clooney and many more. Melissa began her career as a broadcast news reporter and producer. She studied film and international politics at UC Irvine and University of Hong Kong and now resides in the Bay Area.

Elizabeth Voorhees is a cultural strategist whose passion for harnessing the power of story to create positive social change led her to her work as Director of Content Advisement at The Walt Disney Studios. Prior to joining Disney, Elizabeth was the Chief Strategy Officer at narrative change organization Define American, where she worked to humanize immigrant narratives in television and film. Before her transition into non-profit work, Elizabeth had a fifteen-year career as a producer and showrunner for television networks such as MTV, OWN, and Lifetime Television. She brings her years of experience at the intersection of media and social justice to the Good Energy board.

Ariela Barer is a Los Angeles-born, New York-based actor, writer, and producer. She is best known for her work in the 2023 film How To Blow Up A Pipeline. Barer has been active in progressive spaces from a young age, when she would attend climate change and anti-war protests with her mother. Since then, Barer has dedicated herself to merging the political with her passion for storytelling.

A broadcast journalist, media pioneer and digital communication leader, Willow Bay is dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. With a relentless commitment to students, Bay has increased scholarship opportunities, launched the state-of-the-art Annenberg Media Center, accelerated curricular innovations, and vastly expanded the school’s partnerships with key media and technology partners. Prior to joining USC, Bay was co-anchor of CNN’s Moneyline, a reporter and anchor for ABC News’ Good Morning America/Sunday, a correspondent for World News Weekend, and a senior editor and strategic adviser at The Huffington Post.

SCOTT Z. BURNS is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and playwright. He is the writer, director, executive producer and creator of the Apple TV+ series EXTRAPOLATIONS which won an Environmental Media Association Award as well as a Sentinel Award and stars Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, Edward Norton and Marion Cotillard among others. In film, Burns' writing credits include THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM as well as THE INFORMANT!, CONTAGION, SIDE EFFECTS and THE LAUNDROMAT for director Steven Soderbergh. As a director, Burns' credits include PU-239 starring Oscar Isaac and Paddy Considine and THE REPORT starring Adam Driver and Annette Bening. Burns served as a producer for the Academy Award-winning documentary AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH for which he received the Humanitas Prize, as well as an executive producer of AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL and SEA OF SHADOWS which won the Sundance Audience Award. On stage, Burns' play THE LIBRARY was produced at The Public Theater and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for best new American play. He is also the director and executive producer of the short film series THE VIEW FROM HERE exploring end-of-life experiences for the terminally ill.

Burns is a frequent advisor at the Sundance Institute and a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Leadership Committee. He attended the University of Minnesota where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in English Literature. Burns began his career in advertising where he was part of the team that created the ‘Got Milk?’ campaign for which he apologizes to lactose intolerant people everywhere.

Dr. Zoanne Clack is an executive producer and co-showrunner on ABC’s “Station 19” as well as an executive producer on the ABC series “Grey’s Anatomy.” She has been with “Grey’s Anatomy” since it began and assists in production of all medical aspects of the show. She attended Northwestern University, UT Southwestern Medical School, and Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She completed a residency in Emergency Medicine, a fellowship in Injury Prevention, and spent a year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is a staunch advocate of promoting public health issues through the media. She served on the Board of the WGA and is now a Trustee on the board of the Producer-WGA Pension & Health Fund. She is privileged to have become a mom to her son in 2013 and twin daughters in 2014.

Kristy Drutman, otherwise known as “Browngirl Green” is a speaker, consultant, media producer, and environmental educator passionate about working at the intersections between media, diversity, and environmentalism. As an entrepreneur and climate communications expert, Kristy has educated hundreds of thousands of people across the globe about modern-day environmental issues through speeches and media content as well as facilitates workshops centered around environmental media and storytelling in cities across the United States. She has been invited to the White House multiple times as an on-ground reporter, was featured in Teen Vogue, NY Times, Refinery 29 among many other publications, is a Grist 50 under 50 recipient and a Create and Cultivate Top 100 creator. Kristy is also the Co-Founder of the Green Jobs Board, a climate tech start-up bridging the equity and inclusion gap within the green economy through conversations, resources, and pathways to bring more diverse talent into the environmental field.

Quinn Emmett is a screenwriter, investor, father of three small humans, and the founder, writer, and host at Important, Not Important: science for people who give a shit.

His critically-acclaimed newsletter and podcast help you think deeply and act decisively about the world’s make or break science news, from climate to COVID, heat to hunger, and agriculture to AI ethics.
His work is consumed on a weekly basis by senators and scientists, investors and doctors, students and CEO’s, best-selling fiction writers and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists.

He has been nominated for 6 Webbys including Best Newsletter, Best Podcast Host, and Best Science Show, and lost one of those to Malala, at which point his wife told him to retire, he’d peaked.
She was almost certainly correct, but here we are.

Kate Langrall Folb, M.Ed., is director of Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), at the USC Norman Lear Center, and a veteran for more than 25 years in the entertainment education field. At HH&S, she leads a team of public health and media professionals to connect entertainment content creators with experts in health, medicine, science, safety and security to ensure accuracy in their depictions. Her team also conducts research on the impact of TV storylines on viewers’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. After an early career in television and music production, Kate joined the Scott Newman Foundation as director of special projects where she worked with top TV shows and films on portrayals of alcohol and other substance abuse, developed a media literacy program for middle and high school students and produced the foundation’s annual public service announcements (PSAs). Later, she served as director of The Media Project, a partnership of Advocates for Youth and the Kaiser Family Foundation, working with entertainment on storylines about HIV/AIDs and other sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy prevention, condom use and sex education. From 2001-2012 Kate led Nightingale Entertainment, an independent consulting firm garnering celebrity involvement, producing PSAs and coordinating national media events for a variety of health-related causes. She joined Hollywood, Health & Society in July of 2012. Kate speaks fluent Spanish, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver, and a master’s degree in education from UCLA.

Wawa Gatheru is a GenZ environmental justice advocate passionate about cultivating a climate movement that is made in the image of all of us. In 2019, Wawa made history as the first Black person in history to receive the Rhodes, Truman, and Udall scholarships. She is the founder and Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist, an organization dedicated to empowering Black girls, women, and non-binary people across environmental disciplines.
As a content creator, Wawa combats climate nihilism and highlights the legacies of those traditionally sidelined from mainstream environmentalism to her audience of over 80,000+ across platforms.

She has earned a BA in Environmental Studies and read for a Master’s in Environmental Governance at the University of Oxford. She sits on boards and advisory councils for ClimatePower, EarthJustice, the Environmental Media Association, and Sound Future.

For her work, Wawa has been recognized as a Young Futurist by The Root, a Grist 50 FIXER, a Glamour College Woman of the Year, named a Climate Creator to Watch by Pique Action and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and was featured on the January 2023 cover of Vogue alongside Billie Eilish.

Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is the Chief Scientist for Nature United and for its global affiliate, The Nature Conservancy, and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Public Law in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University. She is the author of the book “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,” has given a TED talk with over 4 million views, and she also hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding. Katharine has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People, the United Nations Champion of the Environment, and the World Evangelical Alliance’s Climate Ambassador.

Isaias Hernandez is an environmental justice educator and media creative behind the environmental platform, QueerBrownVegan. He produces independent climate media through short form, long form, and events that bring people together across different art mediums into the environmental space. He believes a diversity of worldviews and beliefs is essential in building a just climate movement. His work has been featured on the digital cover of VOGUE with Billie Eilish, interviewed VP Kamala Harris, and nominated as Harvard C-Chan rising creator in 2023.

René Jones is a Partner and Chief of Social Impact at United Talent Agency (UTA), where she established the UTA Foundation for the agency and guides UTA's high-profile clients on their social impact strategies, as well as oversees corporate social responsibility across offices. In 2020, she was appointed by the Governor to the California Volunteers Commission, which is tasked with uniting Californians in service and empowering them to take action in their communities and serves on the Climate Action Corps committee. She sits on the board of directors for International Women’s Media Foundation, protecting and recognizing the critical role of women journalists; U.S.VETS, the nation’s largest veteran housing and services; Impact Guild, which activates media and popular culture for social good; and OneGreenThing tackling climate crisis through daily action and culture change. Jones is a senior fellow for the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab at the University of Southern California and is a proud mom of two teens

Dr. Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory speaking on his own behalf. He is the recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and NASA’s Early Career Achievement Medal. Peter has a B.Sc. in physics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia. His research interests include ascertaining impact from future extreme heat on humans and ecosystems. Peter is also a climate activist. He engages in climate civil disobedience, for which he has been arrested twice. He has inspired people all over the world to become climate activists and take risks to protect life on Earth. He co-founded the Undeniable Network and the popular climate app Earth Hero. In addition to numerous scientific articles, he writes on the climate emergency for popular audiences and has done much to increase social awareness of the climate emergency.

Daniel Kwan has been writing and directing for over a decade as a part of the duo DANIELS with Daniel Scheinert. They got their start with a slew of viral music videos, commercials, and short films, before breaking into the feature film and TV space.

DANIELS have developed a reputation for combining absurdity with heartfelt personal stories. They wrote and directed the feature film Swiss Army Man starring​ Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe, which went on to win the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival​ and gained a large cult following. Their new movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, a kung fu sci-fi dramedy starring Michelle Yeoh, ​became A24’s ​best-performing film of all time and won 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. It also garnered many other awards including the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and WGA award for Best Original Screenplay.

Most recently, Daniel Kwan made his publishing debut with a pair of children's books released by A24, which explore​s existentialism and time travel. I'll Get to the Bottom of This! and 24 Minutes to Bedtime! are available now.

Lyn Davis Lear is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, celebrated environmentalist, and political activist. Shining a light on society’s most urgent issues drives Lyn’s creative and activist endeavors. She has produced, executive produced, and advised documentaries, narrative films, and filmmakers on topics ranging from climate change, and investigative journalism, to new frontiers in cutting-edge medicine and technology. She serves on the boards of trustees of Sundance Institute and LACMA. Her credits include the Ibogaine Feature Doc Of Night & Light premiering this year at Tribeca, The Vow, The Lincoln Project, and Fantastic Fungi. She is currently producing Empathy Not Included, a documentary on the unknown epidemic of malignant narcissism, and has 12 different social change projects in development. Lyn holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She is the mother to three adult children and resides in Los Angeles.

I'm a climate scientist and writer. I spent a decade at various universities and NASA researching the problems climate change causes. Now, I work to advance solutions at Project Drawdown. My book Human Nature will be published by Ecco Press in 2024.

Throughout her career as an award-winning journalist, producer and media executive, Pat Mitchell broke new ground for women as the first woman President of PBS and of CNN Productions. Today, Pat is a co-founder, host and curator for TEDWomen and co-founder and managing partner of ConnectedWomenLeaders, a cohort of global women leaders, across generations and geography, who are launching a global, women-led campaign for climate justice titled Project Dandelion. She serves on the boards of the Sundance Institute, The Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, The Woodruff Arts Center, and the VDAY movement to end violence; she’s also a member of CARE’s Global Advisory Council and Chair Emeritus of the Women’s Media Center which established an annual award in her name. In her memoir,
“Becoming a Dangerous Woman,” Mitchell shares her journey as a frontline advocate for a just, equitable and sustainable world.

Katherine Oliver is a founding Principal of Bloomberg Associates, an international philanthropic consultancy founded by former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Katherine oversees the media and digital strategies portfolio, advising global cities on economic development and public communications strategies, while helping them harness the power of media and technology to improve government services.

Katherine also oversees Bloomberg Philanthropies’ film portfolio and served as an Executive Producer on From the Ashes and Paris to Pittsburgh two environmental documentary films tackling climate change and action as well as “The Invisible Shield” a docu-series on the history and significance of public health. She supports a number of not for profits dedicated to storytelling and filmmaking including the Academy Museum, the Ghetto Film School, the Paley Center and the Center for Communication.
Katherine served as Commissioner of NYC’s Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment from 2002-2013, during the Bloomberg Administration, building NYC into an $8 billion film and TV production capital, increasing local employment levels by 50% and implementing the Made in NY marketing and branding program.
She also drove the City’s support of the tech sector and launched NYC Digital, a new city agency created in 2010 to realize the full integration of the City’s varied digital platforms and the full utilization of technology and social media to foster a responsive and modern government. Signature initiatives, such as the now globally recognized “Made in NY” marketing and branding campaign, served as a cornerstone in the strategy to secure passage of the first-ever municipal tax credit for the film and TV industry and an opportunity to recognize the growing tech sector in New York City and create a beacon to attract talent from across the United States and the world.

Jeff Orlowski-Yang is the Founder and Creative Director of Exposure Labs, a film and impact production studio that uses stories to change the world. Orlowski-Yang directed the Sundance- premiering, Emmy-winning documentaries The Social Dilemma (2020), Chasing Coral (2017) and Chasing Ice (2012), which were seen by hundreds of millions worldwide and screened everywhere from classrooms and local communities to Capitol Hill and the United Nations. Orlowski-Yang has traveled on tour representing the Sundance Institute, President Obama's Committee for the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment of the Arts, among many other speaking and press engagements. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Andrew Reich is an Emmy Award-winning television writer and showrunner. His credits include writing and Executive Producing the hit show "Friends". He has created and produced comedy pilots for ABC, CBS and Fox networks. Currently he is producing and directing a music documentary about the four-decade long career of the Los Angeles band, Redd Kross. He also produces and hosts the podcast, "Dead Pilots Society", which features readings of unproduced pilots by top television comedy writers. Andrew is a charter member of the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and a former Trustee at Earthjustice. He graduated with a B.A. in English from Yale University. Andrew lives in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara with his wife - journalist and novelist Christine Lennon - and their twins.

Favianna Rodriguez is an award-winning artist, cultural strategist, and President of The Center for Cultural Power, a national organization igniting change at the intersection of art, culture, and social justice. She collaborates with social movements around the world to co-create narrative and cultural strategies that are resilient and transformative. Favianna is regarded as one of the leading thinkers and personalities uniting art, culture, and social impact. She is a nationally-celebrated artist and recipient of numerous awards.

Scott Shigeoka is an internationally-recognized curiosity expert, speaker, and the author of Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life And Change The World. Scott is also the Senior Advisor of Good Energy, where he co-led the development of the Playbook. He is known for translating research into strategies that promote positive well-being and connected relationships around the globe, including at the UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and through his popular courses at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally from Hawai′i, Scott now lives in California.

Adam Umhoefer is an Executive in the CAA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Umhoefer works in the Los Angeles office and serves as a strategic advisor to actors, writers, directors, athletes, executives, and corporations on their philanthropic and pro-social initiatives. He leads the company’s climate and sustainability work, providing opportunities for action and helping inspire a global network of climate activists.

Umhoefer has been instrumental in organizing efforts around climate storytelling, building partnerships with NRDC, the Black List, and the Redford Center for the Climate Storytelling Fellowship which supports screenwriters with grants of $20,000 and six months of mentorship. He also helped launch Good Energy’s Climate Storytelling Playbook which empowers writers by giving backstory into climate science and accountability, in depth tools for climate storytelling, and resources for artistic health and partner opportunities.

Umhoefer serves on the Advisory Board of the Hollywood Climate Summit, an annual multi-day conference that creates a community space for thousands of filmmakers, executives, artists, activists, climate organizations, scientists, and other experts for interactive programming and opportunities to take action on climate. In 2023, Forbes listed Umhoefer as one of the top climate leaders changing the film and TV industry.

Britt Wray, PhD is an author and researcher working at the forefront of climate change and mental health. Her latest book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, is an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption and was a finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Award.

Britt is the Lead of the Special Initiative of the Chair on Climate Change and Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine. Before launching that initiative, she was a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Innovation in Global Health, Woods Institute for the Environment and the London School of Medicine's Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. She holds a PhD in science communication from the University of Copenhagen.

Britt has advised Canadian Federal Ministers, the US State Department, and multiple Fortune 500 companies. A Canadian Screen Award winner, her work in media has led her to host several podcasts, radio and TV programs with the BBC and CBC, as well as write Gen Dread, a newsletter about finding hope and taking meaningful action on the far side of climate grief: gendread.substack.com. Her TED talk "How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health" has been viewed more than 2.5M times. She holds a Climate Psychology Certificate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a Fellow in the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship offered by Harvard C-Change.

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. is the President & CEO of Hip Hop Caucus. Rev Yearwood is the Host of the award-winning climate and environmental justice podcast The Coolest Show, Senior Advisor of Bloomberg Philanthropies Beyond Petrochemicals Campaign, and one of the most innovative advocates and strategists for racial justice and climate justice. He is a White House Champion of Change for Climate leadership and according to Rolling Stone he is a “New Green Hero.”