Philip Higuera is an associate 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.