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Widely recognized as a leading paleontologist, Brusatte has described over a dozen species of dinosaurs and mammals, led groundbreaking studies, and published over 150 peer-reviewed papers. A faculty member at the University of Edinburgh, he grew up in the midwestern U.S. and holds degrees from the University of Chicago, the University of Bristol, and Columbia University in New York. Brusatte served as a science consultant for the film Jurassic World: Dominion and has written numerous books, including the bestselling Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and its sequel, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals.

An underwater explorer, bestselling author, photographer, speaker, and filmmaker, Heinerth has led expeditions into volcanic lava tubes, submerged caves, and Antarctic icebergs. As the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s first Explorer-in-Residence, she pioneered a type of technical diving that uses rebreathers. Heinerth is also a celebrated author — of the memoir Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver and the children’s book The Aquanaut — and a member of the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame, the Underwater Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Women Divers Hall of Fame, and the Explorers Club.

A widely published freelance photojournalist based in Mexico, Dhaliwal has covered everything from gray whales to Guatemalan families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, and reported on issues from climate change to immigration to cartel violence. Her storytelling often puts human faces on complex policies, systems, and phenomena. Dhaliwal — whose work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, National Geographic, The Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, and NPR — has received funding from the National Geographic Society, the International Women’s Media Foundation, the International Center for Journalists, and the International Reporting Project.

Sabine K. Bergmann is the co-founder and co-CEO of Hidden Compass. As an award-winning travel, science, and nature writer, she has contributed stories to dozens of publications — including WIRED, Sierra Magazine, and The Best Travel Writing book series — with a collective readership of tens of millions of readers. Her writing has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe, North Africa, and North America. As an editor, she has managed content for travel companies valued at more than $500 million. Sabine is a Stanford University-trained environmental researcher and community coordinator who has worked on conservation projects from the Amazon Basin to the Great Barrier Reef. In 2009, she represented Stanford University climate researchers at the United Nations. From 2011-2013, she was the co-host of a live-broadcast environmental radio show in Spanish with an audience of 100,000. She has interviewed sources at sea in a tropical storm, escaped political unrest in the Andes, and discovered cocaine-smuggling coverups in the Caribbean. She has also interviewed earthquake survivors and astrophysicists, mountain biked from the Andes to the Amazon, and chronicled oral traditions passed down through millennia of indigenous history. Learn more at www.sabinekbergmann.com.

Sivani Babu is the co-founder, co-CEO, and creative director of Hidden Compass. She is an award-winning journalist and nature photographer who has contributed to BBC Travel, CNN, Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Iron Horse Literary Review, and numerous other publications. Her work has been recognized in the Best American Travel Writing series and has appeared in exhibits from San Diego to the Sorbonne. Sivani graduated from the University of Chicago with three majors — economics, public policy studies, and political science — and one Lazarused newspaper, the Chicago Weekly News. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she taught high schoolers about their constitutional rights. As a Teach for America corps member, she taught eighth-graders about the tangency of math and literacy. After working on a Supreme Court case and representing hundreds of indigent criminal defendants, Sivani left her career as a federal public defender to sail across the most brutal sea on earth. Since then, she has chased storms through Tornado Alley, searched for polar bears in the Arctic Circle, and survived serious injury while celestially navigating the Bermuda Triangle. Sivani is working on her first book, Saving the Night: Shedding Light on the Importance of Darkness.