Arielle V. King is a 25-year-old environmental educator, facilitator, writer, and content creator passionate about making environmentalism and law inclusive and accessible to all people. Arielle’s work is focused on storytelling and amplifying the voices, work, and legacies of those traditionally overlooked in mainstream environmentalism. She has a background in environmental racism analysis, developing anti-racism policies for municipalities and school districts, political ecology, civil rights law, and centering community input in environmental governance. She is the Programming Director at Black Girl Environmentalist, an intergenerational community dedicated to empowering Black girls, women, and non-binary people across environmental disciplines. In 2022, Arielle researched, scripted, and hosted Season 1 host of The Joy Report, a podcast dedicated to sharing positive, intersectional climate solutions-- amplifying the stories and contributions of underrepresented groups in the mainstream environmental movement. 

Terry Carroll  is the Chief Sustainability Officer for Tompkins County. Previously he was Energy Educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County , where he managed NYSERDA's Clean Energy Communities program in the Southern Tier. Terry has worked throughout theSouthern Tier, first in Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties running Solarize campaigns for several years, before taking on the management of the Clean Energy Communities program. He has experience working with local governments and non-profits in every county in the Southern Tier and currently chairs Tompkins County’s Climate and Sustainable Energy advisory board. Before coming to Extension, Terry volunteered as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Vermont’s Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation creating partnerships for a new citizen-designed statepark, interned in Government Relations with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., and spent time learning to be a carpenter in Ithaca, NY. 

Rebecca Evens is the Acting Director of Sustainability for the City of Ithaca and helped to develop the City’s Climate Action Plan and is actively working to integrate climate justice throughout that work. She previously served as the Campus Sustainability Coordinator at Ithaca College where she advance a range of diverse, high impact sustainability measures.