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Tara Houska

Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) is a tribal attorney, founder of Giniw Collective, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She spent six months fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and is currently engaged in the movement to defund fossil fuels and stop Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

Brandon Hurlbut

Brandon Hurlbut served in the Obama Administration as US Department of Energy Chief of Staff and in the White House as the President’s liaison to the energy and environment cabinet agencies.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an indigenous woman from the Mbororo pastoralist community in Chad and an expert in adaptation and mitigation of indigenous peoples and women in relation to climate change, traditional knowledge, and the adaptation of pastoralists in Africa.

Anastasia Istratova

Anastasia Istratova is an investor at 40 North Ventures, led over $1.1 billion of solar project finance transactions at SunPower, and worked in investment banking at HSBC France.

Mitch Jacobson

Mitch Jacobson is the Executive Director of the Austin Technology Incubator and the Executive Director of the Blackstone LaunchPad at The University of Texas at Austin. He helped build a $2.5B clean tech sector and ecosystem in Central Texas over the past 10 years. He has 39 years of experience in the technology industry.

Mateo Jaramillo

Mateo Jaramillo is co-founder and CEO of Form Energy. Form Energy works to develop breakthrough, low-cost, long-duration energy storage solutions that enable the electric system to be 100% renewably powered. He was formerly Vice President of Products and Programs for Tesla’s stationary energy storage program, an effort he started.

Slater Jewell-Kemker

Slater Jewell-Kemker has been making films since she was six. An award winning filmmaker and climate activist, Slater has been featured in Forbes twice and selected by the Hollywood Reporter as one of 15 filmmakers under 30 to watch.

Mayor Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson was elected Mayor of Dallas in June 2019. He is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives, where he represented Dallas from 2010 to 2019. During his tenure in the Texas House of Representatives, Mayor Johnson served on twenty prominent legislative committees and as the Chairman of the Dallas Area Legislative Delegation.

Dr. Kirk Johnson

Dr. Kirk Johnson is the Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He oversees more than 440 employees and a collection of more than 147 million objects—the largest natural history collection in the world.

Sarah Johnson

Sarah Johnson is a member of the Producers Guild of America, The Board of Trustees at St. Lawrence University, Board Member and sponsor of Conservation South Africa (Subsidiary of Conservation International), and Chair of the Board at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Seneca Johnson

Seneca Johnson is a senior at the Santa Fe Indian School, and from the Muscogee and Seminole Nations of Oklahoma. She is a steering committee member of YUCCA, Youth United for Climate Crisis Action, whose mission is to create sustainable social, economic, and environmental change for every member of her community.

Blake Jones

Blake Jones is a cooperative entrepreneur with two decades of experience in the renewable energy industry. He is a co-founder of Namasté Solar, Clean Energy Credit Union, Amicus Solar Cooperative, and Kachuwa Impact Fund.