Dr. Anderegg is a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah and was the inaugural director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy from 2022-2025 where he remains on the Leadership Team. He received his bachelors and Ph.D. from Stanford University and did a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University. Dr. Anderegg has been recognized by National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), National Science Foundation Faculty Development Early Career Science Program (CAREER); Blavatnik Foundation National Laureate in Life Sciences, Web of Science Global Highly Cited Researcher; Packard Foundation Fellow for Science and Engineering; and Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Anderegg’s research centers around the intersection of ecosystems and climate change, aiming to understand the future of forests in the western US and around the world.

Kevin Baker is the Deputy General Counsel, Hydro, for rPlus Energies, where he represents the company in federal and state regulatory matters for grid-scale hydroelectric and energy storage projects. With more than 26 years of experience in large-scale energy and natural resource development, Kevin brings a proven ability to guide complex energy and infrastructure projects to successful outcomes. He takes a practical and reasoned approach to legal advice, emphasizing the critical role of in-house counsel in supporting successful business operations.

Kevin’s expertise centers on regulatory and permitting matters for projects on public lands, engaging federal and state agencies nationwide. His experience spans FERC licensing, USBR power privilege leasing, BLM rights-of-way, state siting approvals, local land use permits, and other federal, state, and local regulatory processes. He is currently leading the legal and regulatory efforts for three grid-scale pumped storage projects in Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah, delivering critical infrastructure bringing jobs, economic development, and reliable, resilient energy to these regions.

Previously, Kevin served as Vice President of Legal Affairs for Antofagasta Minerals, managing one of the nation’s largest and most high-profile copper and nickel mining projects. He successfully defended the mine’s mineral rights against adverse federal actions, including preventing a Presidential Antiquities Act designation, stopping a U.S. Forest Service withdrawal, and reversing a Department of the Interior official opinion, through litigation and negotiations with federal agencies, the White House, and Congress. He also served as the senior attorney for Rio Tinto’s U.S. energy group, managing legal operations and supporting business development, including the creation and NYSE listing of Cloud Peak Energy, as well as major mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Kevin is an award-winning author, a hobby cartoonist, and an Eagle Scout. He holds a B.S. in International Finance from Brigham Young University, an M.B.A., and a J.D. from the University of Oregon.

Melissa Barbanell is an independent consultant who supports the work of civil society, philanthropy and academia to drive a transition to clean energy built on responsibly sourced minerals. Melissa was most recently with the World Resources Institute where she served a dual role leading high-level climate and energy dialogues between non-governmental U.S. participants and counterparts in China, India, and the EU and establishing WRI’s Energy Minerals and Circularity work stream, bringing together in-house experts from the U.S., Europe, China, Indonesia, India and Africa. Melissa has extensive knowledge of the mining sector and has worked with local, national, and global leaders to transform the sector, with particular emphasis on environmental impacts, community engagement, and legal and regulatory frameworks. Melissa has played a leadership role at the Global Battery Alliance and serves as a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Group in the development of the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative. Melissa managed the global environmental sustainability portfolio at Barrick Gold Corporation for over a decade and represented the International Council on Mining and Metals and its corporate and association members in a range of UN negotiations. Melissa also served as the non-ferrous metals mining expert on four UNEP Technical Expert Groups. Melissa studied at Johns Hopkins University, Tulane University, and the University of Utah and holds degrees including a J.D. and a M.A. in Public Management.

Eric Biber’s teaching and research interests are environmental law, natural resources law, energy law, land-use law, federal Indian law, administrative law, and property. Prior to joining Berkeley in 2006, he worked as a litigator in the Denver office of Earthjustice, a public-interest nonprofit organization specializing in public lands and other environmental cases.

Ethan Blevins is a Senior Legal Fellow on Pacific Legal Foundation’s Constitutional Scholarship Team, where he specializes in property rights, the Fourth Amendment, and economic liberty. He received his law degree and a Master’s in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law. Ethan lives with his wife and four children in Bountiful, Utah.

Stephen Bloch is an attorney and legal director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA). SUWA is Utah’s largest conservation organization. Formed in 1983, its mission is the preservation of the outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau, and the management of these lands in their natural state for the benefit of all Americans. Steve received his law degree from the S.J Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and has worked at SUWA since 1999. In 2011, he was the Utah State Bar Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law (ENREL) Section’s Lawyer of the Year and he served as ENREL Section Chair in 2019-2020. Steve currently serves on the Salt Lake City Parks, Natural Lands, Urban Foresty & Trails Advisory Board. He and his family live in Salt Lake City.

Kristi Disney Bruckner is an attorney with 25 years of experience working on complex law and policy issues with governments, communities, companies, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. She is Law and Policy Director at the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) where she works with governments, civil society, Indigenous rights holders, workers, and companies to use IRMA’s best practice standards as a tool to improve mining sector governance and responsible sourcing, including for materials needed for renewable energy, electric vehicles, and other low-carbon technologies. She has represented IRMA at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties, at the UN Environment Assembly, and on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals. Her experience includes over a decade of leadership at Sustainable Development Strategies Group, working to align management of renewable energy and natural resources with sustainable development objectives. She has worked with government, community, and industry stakeholders around the world to review and improve law and policy frameworks; build capacity to negotiate and manage natural resource contracts and company-community agreements; and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Her work has included research and co-authorship of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) validation reports for 16 countries, review of mining law and policies of over 70 jurisdictions, and review of community development requirements for the mining sector in over 50 countries. She has also worked with the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) to complete Mining Policy Framework Assessments, capacity building seminars, and guidance for IGF Members, including guidance on improving environmental and social impact assessment and management for the mining sector. She is an adjunct professor of climate change law, sustainable development and international trade, and community engagement courses at law schools in Colorado and Arizona.

Nada Wolff Culver is currently a partner with Nashoba Consulting, LLC and a co-executive director of the Tribal-Public Lands Alliance. Nashoba and TPLA work to inform Tribes and non-governmental organizations about the legal and policy tools they need to engage in the conservation, protection, acquisition and management of federal public lands, connecting NGOs and Tribal communities with their public lands, and each other. Nada was most recently the Principal Deputy Director with the Bureau of Land Management. In this role, Nada oversaw the development and application of policy and regulations, to ensure conservation is managed on par with other multiple uses; support the transition to clean energy and manage oil and gas responsibly; protect natural and cultural resources in national monuments, wilderness study areas and management plans; and make Tribal co-stewardship a part of all public lands management.  Prior to her time at the BLM, Nada was the Vice President, Public Lands and Senior Policy Counsel at the National Audubon Society, leading Audubon’s public lands program and its efforts to defend and innovate implementation of bedrock wildlife conservation laws. Nada was also the Senior Counsel and Senior Director of Agency Policy and Planning at The Wilderness Society, providing technical advice and support to citizens and conservation groups working to protect their public lands. Nada is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Kirti Datla is the Director of Earthjustice’s Strategic Legal Advocacy Program.  Earthjustice is the largest nonprofit environmental law firm in the United States, with 200 lawyers across the country and around 500 active cases.  She leads Earthjustice’s efforts to anticipate and shape the doctrines that affect cases across the entire organization, such as justiciability, review of agency actions, and constitutional doctrines about federal power and the shape of the federal government.  This collaborative work spans Earthjustice’s own cases as well as cases litigated by other environmental or regulatory litigation groups that implicate these issues.  Prior to joining Earthjustice, Kirti worked in the Supreme Court and Appellate practice group at Hogan Lovells US LLP, in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, and as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary.  Among other professional activities, Kirti is an appointed member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Dr. Steve Feldgus was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior during the Biden administration, where he directly oversaw four federal bureaus and led work on the Interagency Working Group on Mining Laws, Regulations, and Policies. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Steve spent seven years on the House Natural Resources Committee, including as Deputy Staff Director under Chair Raúl M. Grijalva and Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. He previously held a variety of other roles in the legislative and executive branches over his 21-year federal career. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Steve holds a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

Jake Garfield is the Deputy Director of the Utah Office of Energy Development, where he focuses on advancing affordable, reliable, and abundant energy for the state. With an extensive background in public lands and natural resources, Jake previously served as Assistant Attorney General in the Public Lands Section of the Utah Attorney General's Office and Deputy Director at the Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office. He holds a J.D. from Brigham Young University and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Utah.

Ryan Gellert is chief executive officer (CEO) of Patagonia.

Gellert has been at the helm of the California-based outdoor apparel company since 2020. He oversaw the transfer of the company’s ownership to two entities in September 2022: The Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective. The structure legally enshrines the company’s values and purpose and allows for every dollar that’s not reinvested back into the company to be distributed as an annual dividend to help protect nature.

Prior to his appointment to this global role, Gellert spent six years as Patagonia’s general manager of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During that time, he elevated Patagonia to a position of leadership in Europe’s outdoor industry and environmental communities, overseeing all sales, marketing, environmental and operational activities for the brand.

Gellert has lived and worked in the United States, Asia and Europe. Before joining Patagonia, he spent 15 years at Black Diamond Equipment, where he held a number of roles, including brand president, vice president of supply chain management and managing director of Black Diamond Asia.

An avid climber and backcountry snowboarder, Gellert has climbed and ridden all over the world. He has extensive experience working with direct action environmental groups, having served on the boards of Access Fund, Protect Our Winters, the European Outdoor Group and the Soil Heroes Foundation. In addition, he was a founding individual member of 1% for the Planet.

Gellert holds a JD from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah; an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology; and a BSBA in finance from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Lauren is CEO and Executive Editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Salt Lake Tribune, the first major metro news organization to become a nonprofit.

In the six years since it became a nonprofit, The Tribune acquired and converted the Moab Times-Independent to a nonprofit, launched the Utah News Collaborative, a content-sharing initiative for news organizations across the state, and incubated the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a group focused on elevating solutions to the lake’s challenges that to date has spurred hundreds of millions in legislative support.

In 2025, The Tribune expanded, launching the 40,000 circulation Southern Utah Tribune, a free newspaper based in St. George. In 2026, The Salt Lake Tribune will become free online, no subscription needed.

Lauren returned to Utah in 2020, after serving as Executive Editor of The Sacramento Bee and West Region Editor for McClatchy. She’s also worked as an editor in Colorado, Texas and Nevada.

She is a coach in the Media Transformation Challenge at Medill, supporting other news leaders as they look to make performance-driven change.

She enjoys camping, skiing and playing soccer with her two boys and husband, and she continues to pursue the perfect scratch-made sourdough bagel.

Mark Haggerty, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, has been a student of the West for the last 35 years. His research has focused on land use planning, natural resource economies, rural development, state and local fiscal policy, and public lands. With a reputation as a nonpartisan expert committed to practical solutions, Mark has served on local planning commissions, provided expert advice to state legislatures, and testified to Congress at the invitation of both Democrats and Republicans. Mark holds a bachelor’s in economics and a master’s in geography from the University of Colorado. He lives in Bozeman, Montana, where he co-owns millions of acres of public lands and waters with his family and friends.

Jamie Harvey is County Commissioner, District # 3 in San Juan County, Utah. He is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation  and was appointed to the Utah Navajo Trust Fund / Dine Advisory Committee member by the Governor of Utah in 2015 and still holds this position. He has served in a variety of leadership roles including Aneth Chapter Secretary 2001-2009, Navajo Utah Commission Vice Chair 2004, Navajo Utah Commission member 2002-2009, Utah Navajo Health Systems Board Chairman 2016-2018, and Utah Navajo Health Systems Board of Directors 2001-2022. He is an alumnus of the University of Utah, with a bachelor’s in Sociology, including a Certificate in Criminology, and a master’s in public administration through the University of Utah MPA Executive Program. Harvey can speak, read, and write Navajo. Klaa’sh Ch’ii’ih -Red Bottom (Maternal Clan), Born for Ta’h Ch’ii’ni’h-Red Streak Running into the Water (Paternal Clan). K’in ya A’ani- Towering House- (Maternal Grandfathers) and Kliz’ii’h xlaa’ni’h-Manygoats (Paternal Grandfathers).

Blake Hudson teaches courses related to property, environmental and natural resources law. His research focuses on the intersection of land use law, policy, and planning with natural resource management, with particular emphasis on the role of forest management in combating climate change and the implications of land development for sustainable natural resource management. His research has also centered on the complex role of private property rights and government institutions as solutions to common dilemmas and how federalism and constitutional structure have the potential to both complicate and resolve land use and natural resource management issues at the state, federal and international levels. He has published over 30 articles in legal and peer reviewed academic journals, 10 book chapters and three books.

A lifelong outdoor enthusiast, Sally Jewell served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 2013-17 following over 40 years in business, including eight years as CEO of outdoor retail co-op REI.  In government, she advocated for balanced protection of public lands and waters, working closely with President Obama on long-term conservation of our nation’s most vulnerable and irreplaceable treasures, while facilitating thoughtful development of resources.  She built close relationships with Indigenous people of our nation, respecting their capable stewardship of natural and cultural resources.  And she worked with partners to engage young people in nature and care for public lands.  Jewell currently serves on several boards including Costco, The Nature Conservancy, where she was interim CEO in 2019-20, and others.   She is a frequent contributor to the University of Washington and other universities through guest lectures, mentoring, and helping students and faculty work across disciplines, and in partnership with communities, understand how their diverse skills and life experiences are essential to shaping a future that is equitable, economically successful, and environmentally sustainable for all.

Professor Keiter holds a J.D. degree with honors from Northwestern University School of Law and a B.A. with honors from Washington University. He has taught at the University of Wyoming, Boston College, and Southwestern University, and served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. Professor Keiter's most recent books are To Conserve Unimpaired: The Evolution of the National Park Idea, (Island Press, April 2013), and the Wyoming State Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2017). His other books include Keeping Faith With Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America's Public Lands (Yale Univ. Press 2003); Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology, and the West (Univ. of Utah Press 1998); Visions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante: Examining Utah's Newest National Monument (Utah Mus. of Nat. History & Wallace Stegner Center 1998); The Wyoming State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Press 1993); and The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining America's Wilderness Heritage (Yale Univ. Press 1991). He has also written numerous book chapters and journal articles on public lands and natural resource law, addressing such topics as national parks, ecosystem management, wildfire policy, and biodiversity conservation. He serves as a Trustee of the National Parks Conservation Association and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, for which he served as President from 2013-2014. Professor Keiter teaches Natural Resources Law and Constitutional Law. He has received teaching awards from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Wyoming College of Law, and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. In 2008, he was named a University Distinguished Professor by the University of Utah. His current project is an update of his previous work on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Ashley Korenblat is a founding Managing Director at Public Land Solutions, a non-profit recreation economy consultant who workskdirectly with communities investing in outdoor recreation, and on federal and state legislation and policies that affect rural economies. Ashley’s involvement with outdoor recreation began when she was President of Merlin Metalworks, a bicycle manufacturing company in Cambridge, MA. During that time served as Chair of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). She is currently the CEO of Western Spirit Cycling an outfitter based in Moab, Utah who runs multi-day bicycle trips throughout the US. Western Spirit also produces Outerbike, a consumer bike demo event. Ashley was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2003. She has served on boards for a wide variety of organizations including the Western Governors Association, the State of Utah, the Moab Chamber of Commerce, and the Department of Interior. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.

Natalie recently co-founded the Tribal Public Lands Alliance, an organization focused on the intersection of Indian law and public lands law. In January 2025, she left her role as Deputy Solicitor for Land Resources at the Department of the Interior, where she advised Secretary Haaland, the Deputy Secretary, the Solicitor and Director of the Bureau of Land Management on issues related to America’s public lands. In this role, she provided daily counsel to the BLM, the largest land manager in the United States with one sixth of its land mass. She worked directly with the White House on public lands issues, including leading the legal team for BLM monuments and withdrawals, and counseled the agency on incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge and co-stewardship in federal lands management. Before joining DOI, she spent more than 20 years at the Native American Rights Fund Anchorage office where she served as lead or co-lead litigator on more than 25 high-profile, high-impact federal and state cases. Her work included litigating the President’s revocation of the Bears Ears National Monument under the Antiquities Act and successfully challenging the Keystone XL Pipeline for violations of treaty rights and the National Environmental Policy Act. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College. One of nine children, she is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Imatobby family.

Dr. Megan Lawson is an economist, scientist, and communicator with expertise in the intersection of the economic impact of housing and land use policies, outdoor recreation, economic diversification, and public land management. She is an economist for Headwaters Economics. Dr. Lawson’s innovative analytical skills help communities nationwide understand the economic potential of public lands and outdoor recreation, including the impact on local jobs and income. Lawson is regularly featured by major media outlets. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado.

John Leshy is Emeritus Professor at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco. His many publications on America’s public lands and related topics include a comprehensive history, Our Common Ground (Yale U. Press, 2022), and a book on the Mining Law of 1872. He held various positions in the federal government for a total of fifteen years and taught law for nearly thirty years, including four stints as visiting professor at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1969, after earning an A.B. at Harvard College.

Andrew (Andy) Mergen is the Emmett Assistant Clinical Professor of Environmental Law and the faculty director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School. Mergen is an experienced litigator specializing in environmental, natural resources, and federal Indian law. Mergen served in the Appellate Section of the Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, for over three decades. He has presented oral arguments in all 13 federal courts of appeals and worked on over a dozen merits cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. At Harvard Law School, Mergen has taught Advanced Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, and a short course on environmental legislation and regulation. He writes about Natural Resources Law, Administrative Law, and Legal History.

Scott Miller has practiced, created, taught, and studied public land and natural resources law and policy for more than 25 years in key positions in government, nonprofits, and academia.

As Senior Regional Director for The Wilderness Society (2013-present), Scott has played a critical role in major federal executive and legislative initiatives, including the designation a number of national monuments, wilderness areas, and special management areas, and the formulation, drafting, and passage of numerous federal and state public land and natural resources laws. In 2022, Scott was appointed as a member of the national Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission by the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security.

As Senior Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (2003-2012), Scott helped conceive, draft, negotiate, and influence some of the most significant public lands, energy, and natural resources laws and policies since the turn of the century, including substantial portions of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Act, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and scores of others.  As an Honors Program Attorney in the Department of the Interior's Office of the Solicitor in Washington, D.C. (1998-2003), he advised Secretaries Bruce Babbitt and Gail Norton, along with many senior agency officials, on a range of legal, litigation, and policy issues in public land, natural resources, and Indian law.

Before attending law school, Scott practiced marine biology, researching marine mammal populations in the Eastern Tropical Pacific and Alaska. He is a member and former Chair of the Advisory Council for the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at Colorado Law.

Heidi Redd is an accomplished adventurer; skydiving led her to ranching. She is credited with co-creating an innovative partnership between working ranches and land conservation organizations. In 1967, Redd and her then-husband Robert purchased the Indian Creek Cattle Company and historic Dugout Ranch near Canyonlands National Park. They ran cattle on 5,200 acres of land with 300,000 acres of grazing allotments. Redd partnered with The Nature Conservancy Utah Chapter in 1997 to preserve the ranch’s biodiversity and unspoiled red rock scenery, and in 2009 established the Canyonlands Research Center as a year-around outdoor laboratory for scientists, universities, and federal agencies. Still ranching, she is an active member of the Utah Cattlemen’s Association and the state’s Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Committee. For her advocation of conservation in ranching, Redd has received much recognition, including Conservation Farmer of the Year from the Natural Resources and Conservation Service, the Wallace Stegner Conservation Award, and the Conservation Leadership Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Garett Rose works with a range of stakeholders, including scientists and local groups, to protect the nation’s ecosystems through policy development, litigation, congressional advocacy, and participation in the administrative process. Currently, he leads NRDC's work involving federal forest lands.  He previously worked to defend Alaska’s Arctic landscapes. Prior to joining NRDC, Rose worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C., where he represented local conservation groups and scientists to restore the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. He also clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Rose earned both his bachelor's degree in philosophy with general honors and his law degree with high honors from the University of Chicago, where he was executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He is based in NRDC's Washington, D.C., office.

Pilar Thomas (Pascua Yaqui) is a partner in Quarles & Brady's Energy, Environment & Natural Resources Practice Group. She provides strategic legal advice to tribes, tribal enterprises, and renewable energy companies related to clean energy development, finance and transactions and economic development on Indian lands.  Ms. Thomas previously served as the Deputy Director for the Office of Indian Energy in the US Department of Energy, Deputy Solicitor of Indian Affairs for the US Department of the Interior, Interim Attorney General and Chief of Staff for Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and a trial attorney in the US Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Indian Resources Section.  She is a Professor of Practice at both the University of Arizona School of Law and Arizona State University College of Law, where she teaches Indian Energy Law.  She also serves as a board member for Western Resources Advocates and is the Vice-Chair at large for the ABA Section on Energy Environment and Resources Indigenous Resources Committee. She received her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law, magna cum laude, with a certificate in Indian law, and her B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Elizabeth Kronk Warner is Dean and Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. She was formerly Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law (KU), where she was also the Director of the Tribal Law and Government Center. Dean Kronk Warner is a nationally recognized expert in the intersection of Environmental and Indian law. She has taught courses in Property, Indian, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, and supervised the KU Tribal Judicial Support Clinic. She has received several teaching excellence awards, co-authored several books on environmental issues and Native Americans, and has over 40 articles and book chapters to her credit. Dean Kronk Warner, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, served as an appellate judge for the tribe and as a district judge for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe. Dean Kronk Warner previously was an active member of the Federal Bar Association, serving on its national Board of Directors. In 2014, she received the Federal Bar Association President’s Award for leadership and extraordinary service, commitment, and guidance to the Federal Bar Association and its members. She is currently active in the American Bar Association, where she is co-chaired of the Native American Resources Committee. She holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan, a B.S. from Cornell University, and also studied at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Todd Wilkinson, longtime Montana-based investigative conservation journalist, freelance writer and founder of yellowstonian.org

For more than 40 years,Todd Wilkinson has been a journalist known for his writing that explores the intersection between wild nature and human footprint. His work has appeared in publications like National Geographic and dozens of other prominent newspapers and magazines. He is author of several award-winning books on such topics as scientific whistleblowers, Ted Turner, famous Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, several different prominent nature artists and a recent work, currently being updated, focused in the future of Greater Yellowstone. He is founder of the non profit conservation journalism site, Yellowstonian, found at yellowstonian.org

Jonathan Wood is the vice president of law and policy at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), the national leader in creating market solutions for conservation. He leads PERC's efforts to advance legal and policy reforms that respect property rights, expand incentives for voluntary stewardship, and empower people to advance conservation through markets. His recent work has focused on removing barriers to proactive forest restoration, improving incentives for the recovery of endangered and threatened species, and expanding opportunities to resolve environmental conflicts through collaboration and markets. He received his law degree from NYU School of Law, as well as a masters degree from the London School of Economics.