Abby Litchfield is the Community Manager at the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS), a nonprofit that shares evidence-based sustainability knowledge with a global audience of 200,000 users annually. NBS also leads the Sustainability Centres Community, uniting 200 business school sustainability centers to integrate sustainability into teaching and research worldwide.

In addition to her work at NBS, Abby is a musician—an accomplished singer/songwriter, pianist, and recording artist. With over 15 years of experience performing and four years releasing music, she increasingly merges her musical and sustainability passions. Abby writes songs inspired by the complex emotions tied to climate change and has performed her sustainability-themed music at conferences around the world. Her upcoming EP, Solastalgia, set for release in 2025, continues this mission of inspiring connection and action through music.

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Alexis Cooley (she/her) is a biracial poet, activist and climate nerd. She was raised in Oregon and the Chinese diaspora. Seeking to draw attention to the important world of emotions, her work describes crossings into dimensions where collective memories are not forgotten and the land is alive and feeling. This is her first publication.

Follow her blog at www.alexiscooley.com.

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Alija Blackwell is an award-winning innovator and the founder of Oneiric Lab, a strategic foresight and immersive design consultancy. By using speculative design and scenario building, Alija brings to life pathways to desirable futures through engaging the public imagination. Alija's work in the social impact sector has spanned across arts institutions, academia, policy think tanks, foundations, governments, nonprofits, and NGOs.

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Ally Zlatar is an artist, scholar and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiative that utilizes creative voices as a way to create advocacy and systemic reform. She also founded The Starving Artist Scholarship Fund which helps people access inpatient mental health treatment. Her "This Body of Mine" campaign explores migrant experiences through creative voices and has helped support individuals and artists from refugee-seeking backgrounds globally.

Ally Zlatar has received numerous accolades for humanitarian work; such as the Commonwealth Innovation Awards (2023), UNWomen 30 for 2030 (2024), winner of The Princess Diana Legacy Award (2021), King Hamad Award for Youth Empowerment (2022), the Lieutenant Governor's Community Volunteer Award from the Ontario Government of Canada (2023).

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Audy Noor (she/her) is an Urban and Regional Planning student at Toronto Metropolitan University. Since an early age, Audy has been exploring the world of creative writing, starting with her first short story that was written when she was six years old to writing free verse poems during odd pockets of time throughout high school. Audy has participated in local environmental initiatives over the past several years, including her high school's environmental club, the Toronto Youth Environmental Council, and the Youth Climate Corps campaign. Her passion for building a better world through environmental stewardship fuels her work and aspirations. She is constantly inspired by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s work in climate futurism, which encourages her to reimagine the possibilities of a positively transformed world. Audy hopes to continue to pursue her love of writing through other creative mediums in the future. “July 23rd, 2024” is her first published poem.

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Ebru Winegard is a multidisciplinary Turkish-Canadian artist. Ebru is a graphic designer, visual artist, filmmaker, and art educator. She presented a solo exhibition at the 2024 Contact Photography Festival, and her art has been displayed in group exhibitions and festivals internationally. Her short film "HandMade Paper Font" has screened in Germany, England, Bosnia, USA, and Canada. It was an Audience Choice Award finalist at the UNCG International Sustainability Shorts Film Competition.

In 2020, her design for Creative Mornings Toronto won the CMTO virtual background design contest. Her inclusive weaving workshop recently earned the Ontario Culture Days 2024 “Spotlight People’s Choice Award”.

Ebru’s art is rooted in her family’s creative heritage, with members skilled in painting, music, and crafts. Her works are inspired by culture, nature, and community.

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Elle F. Kingsley is an emerging tech journalist, presenter, and speculative fiction author recognised among the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics and TechWomen 100 Individual Award. She draws on her experience working with cutting-edge technologies like large language models in big tech, weaving her deep understanding of technology, society, and policy into her dystopian sci-fi narratives—as well as her legal technology studies specialising in cyberlaw, AI, data protection and privacy. These legal insights inform her work on the ethical and regulatory frameworks that will shape the digital future.

As a futurist, Next Generation Foresight Practitioner, and Next Generation Champion with the School of International Futures, Elle explores the complex interplay between humanity and emerging technologies, crafting stories that examine their impact on our future.

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Irina is a designer and researcher practicing the creative work of cross-sector translation, the strategic work of systems transition, and the ethical work of forging allyship. At the intersection of existential risk and structural injustice, their current work spans equitable carbon sequestration, Indigenous futurity, stakeholder policymaking, and global security architecture. They've recently fabricated objects for peacemaking workshops with the United Nations, developed a portfolio of interventions addressing nuclear threat reduction with the Center for Complexity, and designed participatory research tools to forefront reindeer herders’ experience of climate change during a Fulbright term in Arctic Finland. Irina holds a BA in Visual Design Communication from University of the Arts London and a Master of Industrial Design from RISD. In addition to presenting at academic conferences and publishing in peer-reviewed journals, they have shared their work on the TEDx stage and in publications such as Vox and WIRED.

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Jamaica/Jam Bridgett (they/them) is a Black queer visual artist, writer, facilitator and community worker who seeks to disrupt binary and colonial ways of seeing and understanding the world. Their community work aims to centre Black and Indigenous queerness, collective healing, and unlearning of harmful and patriarchal ways of relating to one another. Their writing and artwork has been published in AZE Journal, 1919 Magazine, Subvrt Magazine, Behind Shut Eyes: a QTBIPOC Anthology and more.

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Jan Ainali is an artist and designer with a Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design Engineering. Working with graphic design since 2000, his creative journey reflects a deep commitment to sustainability and systemic change. A dedicated vegan and advocate for environmental responsibility, in 2016 he undertook a 1,200 km walk to promote open data and the Sustainable Development Goals, engaging with municipal councils along the way. His professional experience includes serving as a political expert for the Swedish Green Party in the European Parliament and advocating open climate data with Creative Commons. As a co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development, he contributes to knowledge-sharing initiatives for a sustainable future on Wikipedia and its sister projects. In alignment with his principles, he has refrained from flying since 2019, an ethos reflected in his current climate-themed work.

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A gentle generalist, I am no expert. Instead, I love inhabiting in-between spaces and exploring the edges of all things unseen and unknown. I design interfaces and experiences—sometimes real, sometimes fictional, and often shaped by the liminal.

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Katherine Valenzuela likes to imagine better futures, inspired by the power of creativity to shape understanding and create real change. She is a designer, visual storyteller, and founder of The Good Citizen Studio, a graphic design studio that supports purpose-driven organizations with their visual communication and graphic design goals particularly within the areas of creative strategy, graphic design and illustration, and branding.

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Kevin Martens Wong is the Merlionsman and Dreamtiger of the Republic of Singapore, the gay, non-binary, atheist, polyamorous and neurodivergent (auDHD) Kabesa or leader of the Kristang people of Southeast Asia, and the Makaravedra Hierosa or Dragon Reborn of the Holocene in the Roda Mundansa or Kristang cosmological cycle. He is a 2023 Next Generation Foresight Practitioner (NGFP) Fellow for indigenous futures methods via the Kristang practice of dreamfishing, the developer of the Osura Pesuasang, the Kristang theory of human psychoemotional development (merlionsman.com/the-orange-book), and also publishes new plays, poetry and prose in English and Kristang at Tigri sa Chang (tigrisachang.substack.com).

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Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky is a climate justice advocate, artist, researcher, and youth consultant residing on the unceded and ancestral territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. She has been part of the climate movement since she was 15, and has worked for environmental organizations from coast to coast on a range of projects related to climate policy, green jobs, and youth leadership. As a bisexual woman of mixed Mexican and European descent, intersectionality is an important focus in her work. She is especially passionate about connecting young people with the skills, knowledge, and resources they need to contribute to the climate justice movement. Her Master's research in Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria explores how visual artmaking and dialoguing can help young people process climate anxiety and related eco-emotions. Through the Lawson Foundations’ Youth Action & Environment Fellowship Sabrina is further developing and scaling up her arts-based climate emotions workshops.

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Shalyn Isaacs is a writer and poet based in Ottawa, Canada. Her writing focuses on themes of spirituality, mental health & healing, and collective liberation for all beings. She facilitates trauma-informed creative writing workshops for communities in Ottawa and Toronto.

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Sonya was born in Kamagaya, Chiba. Her mother is Japanese and her father comes from the region then known as Yugoslavia. She grew up on Klahoose First Nation territory, and now resides in so-called Toronto. Today, Sonya is a queer foster parent and can't stop writing about the apocalypse.