Miles Coolidge Editor

Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr. (1904–1985) was a highly-recognized American primatologist and a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where he served as president from 1966–72. He became director of the Pacific Science Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for 25 years after serving in the OSS, where he was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1945. He was a curator at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and one of his many papers forms the basis of the modern taxonomy of gorillas. In 1980, Coolidge was awarded the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize. As a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, he is buried at Monticello. See Wikipedia for a complete bio. Russell A. Mittermeier is Chief Conservation Officer of Re:wild (formerly Global Wildlife Conservation). He served as President of Conservation International from 1989 to 2014, then Executive Vice-chair from 2014 to 2017. He specializes in the fields of primatology, herpetology, biodiversity and conservation of tropical forests, and advocates for species survival around the world as well as eco-tourism. In addition to other central roles with the WWF and IUCN, he served as a Vice President of the IUCN from 2009–12. See Wikipedia for a complete bio. Miles Coolidge is a Canadian-American photographer and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine. His photographs, recognized for his focus on subjects that blur the line between architecture and landscape, have been exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, NY; LACMA and MOCA, Los Angeles; the Albright-Knox Museum, SF MOMA; the Third Triennial of Photography, Graz, Austria; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; and the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, Broward County, Florida, among many other national and international venues. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca Hardin is professor of sustainable development in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is a core faculty affiliate of the Keough School's Pulte Institute for Global Development. Hardin collaborates with philanthropic institutions such as the New America Foundation and its Public Interest Technology University Network. Her commitment to open software ecosystems began in actual ecosystems of the Central African Republic while a Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbright researcher in the 1990s. Her dissertation research in contemporary and colonial archives unearthed patterns over time in local and transnational geopolitics of environmental stewardship and exploitation in Equatorial Africa.