James Pogue

James is a Contributing Editor at Harper’s, and write about national politics for Vanity Fair. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books, among many others. He was a 2022 Alicia Patterson Fellow, and has received support from from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He lives in Los Angeles, where I help run a native plant nursery. His first book is called Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West.

@jhensonpogue

Seneca Scott

Seneca moved to Oakland in 2012 to work as the East Bay Director for SEIU Local 1021, representing and negotiating improvements to wages and working conditions for thousands of workers in East Bay cities, most notably Oakland. It didn’t take long for Seneca to fall in love with the town for its independent spirit and love of nature.

@SenecaSpeaks21

Julie Fredrickson, Managing Partner Chaotic Capital. I’m a founder with experience in retail and e-com businesses across all stages. I’ve raised from venture, PE, and crazy people. for everything from cosmetics to online advertising. A couple of my companies even exited and are still around.

@almostmedia

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Ashley Fitzgerald

Ashley Colby Fitzgerald is an environmental sociologist and co-founder of the Rizoma Field School.

@RizomaSchool

Paul McNiel

‍Paul McNiel grew up deep in the woods of Quebec and is a combat veteran and avid outdoorsman. He has visited and studied off-grid and homesteading families and communities for years.

@pbdmcniel

Peter Allen

Peter owns and operates Mastodon Valley Farm, a 220-acre regenerative farm in Southwestern Wisconsin where he has built a timber-frame homestead, planted thousands of fruit and nut trees, and grazes cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. He and his wife grow all their family's food and are raising amazing children. Besides farming, he teaches and consults.

@pclarkallen

Chris Ellis

A twenty-four-year combat career officer. Subject matter expert on individual household disaster preparedness in the United States and other developed countries. Heavy focus on large-scale catastrophic threats, including natural, manmade, and spiritual events (economic collapse, civil war, nuclear detonation, and the Apocalypse).

@prep4disasters

Kate Parsons

Kate is a video artist and educator living in Los Angeles and Montana. She obtained her M.F.A. in Media Arts from UCLA, her M.A. in Digital Art and Video from CSU-N and her B.F.A. from Montana State University. She is the co-founder of FLOAT, a VR/AR art studio, founder of Outer Echoes, a residency in rural Montana, and founder of FEMMEBIT, a video art festival celebrating Los Angeles female artists working in video and new media. Much of Kate's practice surrounds human connection, meaning-making, and our relationships to the biological and environmental systems we inhabit. Her graduate studies involved research into the myriad ways humans mourn and express grief.

@kateparsonstv