Randy Haluza DeLay is a Professor at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta. He is a father, birdwatcher, and cycle commuter, and spent 15 years as a wilderness guide. As a sociology professor at The King’s University for the past twelve years, he has published over 40 academic journal articles and book chapters, and occasional items for magazines and newspapers. This includes two co-edited books: Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada (The University of British Columbia Press, 2009), and the recently released How the World’s Religions are Responding to Climate Change: Social Science Investigations (Routledge, 2014). His PhD is in Education from the University of Western Ontario. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Zoology and Master’s in Recreation. As a social scientist, his research focuses on social movements, religion and the environment, environmental education, and the cultural politics of sustainability. As a citizen, he is active in peace and anti-racism initiatives, and interfaith dialogue.

Alan Reid is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. He has over 20 years experience in developing and communicating research with a wide range of stakeholders on education, environment and sustainability topics. Originally based at the University of Bath’s Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, since the mid-1990s he has been involved in an equally wide range of community, policy, academic, knowledge transfer and public engagement activities, particularly in relation to studies published in the research journal he has edited for the last 10 years, Environmental Education Research.  Alan also contributes to a broad range of research- and development-focused events for environmental and sustainability education associations and networks around the world. Finally, at Monash University, Alan sponsors a series of events and projects focused on fostering more critical conversations about what is required for ‘better teaching and better learning’, alongside promoting more visual and creative approaches to representing and discussing education.

Dr. Alex Wilson is Professor and the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. She is Swampy Cree from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. Her scholarship has greatly contributed to building and sharing knowledge about two-spirit identity, history, and teachings, indigenous research methodologies, anti-oppressive education, and the prevention of violence in the lives of indigenous peoples. As a community activist and Idle No More organizer, her work also focuses on interventions that prevent the destruction of land and water. She is the recent recipient of a 2016 Nellie Award for community activism, the 2015 U of S Community Engagement Award and the 2016 Peter Corren award. Alex was instrumental in developing the University of Saskatchewan’s Indigenous Land based Master’s program.

Tarah Wright is Director of the Education for Sustainability Research Group and Professor at Dalhousie University. She has played a pivotal role in the successful creation of the Environmental Science Program and the innovative College of Sustainability. Tarah holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo (1996), a Masters of Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University (1998) and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Alberta (2002). Tarah’s research focuses on the emerging field of education for sustainable development and she has published numerous papers covering a wide range of issues in sustainability and higher education. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU), and is a co-organizer for World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day. Tarah and her family make their home in the city of Halifax, on the traditional lands of the Mic Mac people, in the Acadian Forest Bioregion, at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.