Leah Penniman is Co-Founder and Director of Farm Operations at Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, an Afro-Indigenous farm that works toward food and land justice. She also serves as a traditional priest in the West African Indigenous religions of Vodun and Ifá, and is a dedicated Dharma practitioner at the Grafton Peace Pagoda Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Sangha. Her books, Farming While Black and Black Earth Wisdom, are love songs for the land and her people. More at www.soulfirefarm.org.

Jan Hania is an Eco-Cultural Restoration Strategist.  Born and raised in nature in the lands of Aotearoa New Zealand, of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa-te-au-ki-te-Tonga, Te Ātiawa, and Ngāti Tama descent (māori nations of Aotearoa), with Friesian heritage of the Netherlands on his father's side, Jan has over 30 years’ experience in large-scale biodiversity and catchment restoration, regenerative agriculture, food system sovereignty and circular economies, climate adaptation, science investment, research and social‑cultural renewal. He holds leadership, coaching, facilitating and advisory roles across indigenous, philanthropic and environmental organizations in Aotearoa and internationally, around the Pacific, Asia, Canada, Europe and in the Americas. These roles include for-purpose and commercial governance roles, on rights of nature, climate investment, and bioregional restoration. At the heart of his mahi is reconnecting people, land and water through regenerative, relational and indigenous‑led approaches.