Brian Tokar (1955-) has been an activist, author and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1970s, and is the Director of the Vermont-based Institute for Social Ecology. He has written and edited numerous books on biotechnology, food issues, and global warming.

Chaia Heller (1962-) has been a teacher of social ecology and feminist theory at the Vermont-based Institute for Social Ecology for over twenty years. Her books include Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature, and the forthcoming Post-Industrial Peasants.

Cihad Hammy was born in Kobani 1991. He studied English literature at Damascus University but left his studies because of the war in Syria. From 2012-2014 he worked as a translator for the Democratic Self-Administration in Kobani. Hammy currently resides in Germany.

Daniel Vernegg is a historan and social worker. He is active in Motmakt, a Norwgian libertarian socialist organization.

Dilar Dirik is an activist of the Kurdish Women’s Movement and a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department of the University of Cambridge. She compares the intersections of gender and institutions of power such as nationalism, capitalism, and the state in the Kurdish liberation movement.

Eleanor Finley is an organizer and a board member at the Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont. She is currently studying for her PhD in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where her research focuses on social movements, political ecology, and energy politics in North Spain.

Gunnar Rundgren is an ecological thinker and activist with experiences from more than 100 countries. He has worked with most parts of the organic agriculture sector — from farming to policy — since 1977, starting on the pioneer organic farm, Torfolk. Rundgren has been engaged as a consultant by NGOs, governments, companies and intergovernmental organisations.