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I am the Director/Curator of the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. I am passionate about EE and advocate for nature play, work to build environmental literacy, and promote awareness and knowledge of the natural world.

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.