Ben Cromwell lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Raven, and son, Ezra. He spends his time writing, playing with Ezra, and worrying about Climate Chaos. His work has appeared in Flyway and High Desert Journal. He is the author of Touch: Making Contact with ClimateChange.
Kanglei Wang graduated from Yale's Branford College in 2011, and is currently wandering in the mountain towns of China after a stint in a big city. She is interested in the intersection between inner-world transformation and outer-world change.
Jonathan Peterson is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow. His professional focus lies in landscape-scale conservation, and he is currently exploring opportunities to facilitate respectful dialogue across differences in support of conservation. It is his hope that this work will continue to carry him throughout North America on the two wheels of his bicycle, the glide of his skis, or the pace of his own two feet.
Brian Marrs holds a Master's degree from Yale University in the field
of energy economics and policy. Prior to Yale, Brian worked as an
energy economics consultant in the United States, the European Union,
and several developing countries before serving as a Robert Bosch
Foundation Fellow at the German Energy Agency (dena) and Vattenfall
Europe, the fourth-largest power provider in the European Union. His
expertise includes large-scale project development and finance for
energy infrastructure, such as offshore wind and solar thermal
generating stations, natural gas generation facilities, coal-fired
power, and energy efficiency improvements. At Yale, Brian's research
concentrated on entrepreneurialism in the energy space, and he
received awards from the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and a Sobotka
Venture Prize for the purpose of launching an energy start-up. Most
recently, Brian served as a contributing author to Corporation 2020, a
book led by Pavan Sukhdev, Special Envoy to the United Nation's
Environmental Programme.
Naazia is a Master's student taking an extra semester to bliss out at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She concentrates on policy and governance and went to Alaska this summer to get a taste of how things really operate on the ground. Numerous faceplants have given her more than a taste.
