Philip Higuera is a professor in the Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences at the University of Montana, where he leads the PaleoEcology and Fire Ecology Lab.

Erika Zavaleta is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Nalini Nadkarni is a professor of biology at the University of Utah.

Danielle Lee is an assistant professor of biology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and a self-described hip-hop maven and outreach scientist who writes about urban ecology and biology.