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Professor Bullard is founding director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University. Professor Bullard is often called the “father of environmental justice.” He is co-founder of the HBCU-CBO Gulf Coast Equity Consortium and HBCU Climate Change Consortium, and co-chair of the National Black Environmental Justice Network.

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Professor Harvey is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Harvey has extensive experience with both carbon dioxide capture/storage engineering and the realization that carbon capture cannot reduce carbon dioxide enough to reduce global warming. Dr. Harvey is internationally recognized for outstanding research in multiple areas of the field of environmental engineering. He has received numerous awards and has appeared in PBS (Frontline) and BBC productions. He is a Fellow of both the American Geological Society and the American Geophysical Union.

Lindsey Gulden is an independent data science consultant, providing services to clients who are working to mitigate climate change and advance the energy transition. She spent more than a decade working at ExxonMobil, where learned firsthand about the fossil fuel industry's approach to carbon capture. More recently, she’s been employed as a data scientist in the vibrant world of climate-tech startups. An NSF graduate fellowship funded her Ph.D. in Climate Science from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. She is a passionate advocate for corporate accountability and true climate solutions.

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Professor Howarth is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. In 2023, The New Yorker cited Howarth as "one of the world’s premier methane scientists." In 2011, Time named him one of that year's "people who mattered," for his research criticizing the presentation of natural gas as a "bridge-fuel" in the transition to renewable energy.

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Professor Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. Jacobson is the director, atmosphere/energy program in the department of civil and environmental engineering. In 2023, Worth Magazine named Jacobson to the “Worthy 100,” the top 100 people globally who “have made the most significant impact on the world this year." In 2022, Jacobson was cited as #1 impactful world scientist in Meteorology & Atmospheric Science (among those first publishing past 1985, Ioannidis, JPA, Mendeley Data, V4, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.4 (2022).

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Professor Tripati is a professor at UCLA in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, and the California Nanosystems Institute. Aradhna is the faculty director and founder of the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. Aradhna has received numerous awards for her research, education, and outreach programs, including a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from President Obama and the White House Office for Science, Technology, and Policy, and the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early career faculty. Aradhna is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).