Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence, affiliate faculty at The New School, and the author of The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It. Dr. Guenther advises NGOs, corporations, and policymakers on fossil-fuel disinformation and climate communication, and she serves as Expert Reviewer for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She lives in New York City with her family.

Alexandra Climent is a rainforest conservationist, sculptural artist, and the founder of Endangered Rainforest Rescue, a women- and Indigenous-led nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring biodiversity and protecting primary forests and Indigenous lands in the Darién Gap of Panamá. Leading expeditions into this notoriously unexplored rainforest, Alexandra gathers seeds from endangered tree species to serve as the backbone of ecosystem restoration. She and her team have established several nurseries in Indigenous communities, where they cultivate these species and work to reforest fragmented areas. Alexandra’s goal for the project is to build out a protected area that will create an essential corridor for endangered species, including the jaguar, along Panama’s longest river—the Chucunaque. The Darién Gap serves as a vital ecological corridor connecting the Americas and is crucial in safeguarding the global ecosystem. The creation of this corridor would play a significant role not only at a local scale but also in global climate mitigation efforts, given the geographical significance of this area.

Alexandra’s artistic practice involves utilizing materials gathered from fallen trees in the rainforest, working with some of the most dense and beautiful wood in the world. The aim of her work is to showcase the rainforest’s beauty and highlight its urgent need for protection. In 2023, Alexandra was selected as the United States Country Leader for the G20’s Changemaker Summit. She is also an ambassador to the United Nations SDG Action Campaign and a member of The Explorers Club in NYC, where she was chosen to speak as a Next Generation Explorer at the Club’s Annual Dinner Weekend in 2023.

Tori Tsui is a climate justice author. Her debut book It’s Not Just You explores the intersections of the mental health and climate crisis, it was short-listed for the Wainwright prize. She is a Senior Advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Climate Justice Lead for Earth Percent.

Zahra is a Climate Words writer and advocate. She thinks about climate change daily, finds hope in the people she meets in the movement, and loves to find the intersections in all justice related work. She is based in Boston, though originally from sunny, red-rock southern Utah where she spent a majority of her time outside. She studied environmental policy and communications in college and currently works in the offshore wind energy sector to build a more equitable workforce.

Géraldine Pflieger is a full professor of urban and environmental policy at the University of Geneva in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. In 2017, she became Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, which brings together five partner faculties and trains students in the themes of water, climate change, biodiversity protection, regional planning and the energy transition.

From 2020, at the suggestion of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences and by appointment of the Federal Council, she became associate negotiator and science representative on the Swiss delegation responsible for climate negotiations at the COPs.

She holds a PhD in urban planning from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris), and was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the EPFL as a researcher from 2003 to 2008, and then the University of Lausanne as an assistant professor from 2008 to 2010. She joined the University of Geneva in 2010 as a lecturer and then became a professor in 2014. Since 2015, she has co-directed the UNESCO Chair in Hydropolitics at UNIGE with Christian Bréthaut.