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I have been working in the environmental education field for 6 years. I have a particular interest in mycology and herpetology.

Ms. Krishna K. Roy is a conservationist and social activist.  She has worked in the nonprofit sector for three decades as a grantmaker, consultant and in senior management positions specializing in capacity building, strategic planning, development, marketing, event planning, and public relations.  She was a Branch Chief at the US Fish and Wildlife Service and held positions at Island Press, San Diego Zoo, The Nature Conservancy, and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation among other assignments.

From 2010-2015, Ms. Roy was the U.S.G. representative to the Ramsar Wetlands of Importance Convention and co-chaired the reform of its Scientific and Technical Committee that was approved by 170 countries. She was instrumental in the adoption of a migratory bird conservation plan at the Convention of Migratory Species Conference of Parties.  She has raised more than $85 million and developed groundbreaking environmental media and marketing partnerships with Discovery Communications, Black Entertainment Television, Telemundo, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Exxon, among others.

In 1984, Ms. Roy worked on the Oscar-nominated film The Garden of Eden, on the importance of saving biodiversity that won numerous other film awards. She won a Telly in 2000 for co-producing a documentary entitled Killing our Oceans. 

Ms. Roy has a B.A. (Honors) in Political Science from Jadavpur University in India and an M.A in Comparative History and Television Production and Direction from the University of Michigan. She serves on several nonprofit boards.

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Queta González is the Director of the Portland-based Center for Diversity & the Environment (CDE). CDE has been committed to diversifying the environmental movement since 2008. Today nearly 400 alumni representing 250 organizations have graduated from our trainings, with a broader program reach that includes over 3,500 individuals from nearly 300 organizations. CDE’s work focuses on the challenge and opportunity we have before us in our efforts to align the environmental movement with an increasingly multicultural and diverse society.

I am an 18 year old global sustainability activist and the winner of the 2016 International Children's Peace Prize. I am also the Founder President of youth sustainability organisation Green Hope Foundation which has over 1000 young members working across several countries on the SDGs.

I am a 29-year-old environmental educator from Guatemala. When I was 24, I founded Semillas del Océano, an organization that uses education, science and community action to promote the sustainable use of the ocean and its marine life. I'm sowing the seed of conservation in the new generations.

Colorado has established a lead role in advancing environmental education across the nation. In 2012, the State Board of Education adopted the Colorado Environmental Education Plan with bipartisan support. The Colorado Environmental Education Leadership Council is responsible for implementing the plan’s strategies. This is the first collaborative group in the nation specifically designed to engage in cross-sector partnerships to advance environmental literacy in Colorado’s PreK-12 schools. The primary objective of this project is to develop a community of practice where Council leaders and environmental education partners are equipped with effective tools for network building, leadership, and communication. Using a suite of online learning tools, this community of practice will allow Council members to share research and best practices in environmental education. This includes telling the story of environmental education in Colorado through multiple media, hosting a series of webinars aimed at professional development in environmental education leadership, and creating a networking space to build a strong infrastructure of partnerships across all Colorado communities.

Hillary Mason is an environmental educator and researcher at the University of Colorado in Denver. She is the Environmental Literacy Coordinator at the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education, a professional organization aimed at advancing environmental literacy by connecting communities with environmental education materials and resources. Hillary is a member of the Colorado Environmental Education Leadership Council, a select team of leaders charged with implementing strategies in the Colorado Environmental Education Plan adopted by the State Board of Education in 2012. Hillary has a master’s degree in Environmental Science and is currently working on her Ph.D. in STEM Education. Her research focuses on environmental identity development and its relationship to science learning across different cultures and communities. Hillary has worked as a middle grades science teacher and is currently a lecturer in the School of Education and Human Development and the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado in Denver. As a fellow in the T3 Accelerator program, she is utilizing a peer-to-peer learning model to develop an online platform for Council members to build capacity and partnerships that will strengthen efforts to provide environmental education in Colorado’s PreK-12 schools.