GEOVERSIV - Key Persons

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• Senior Advisor for Geospatial Exploration

David is a documentary photographer, pioneering sailor and Arctic explorer. He is the only American to have sailed the Northwest Passage in both directions. Read more about his work here.

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• Senior Advisor for Science Communication & Journalism / Executive Producer, Earth Intelligence Podcast

Don Shelby is one of the most respected and decorated journalists in the country. A veteran of 55 years of investigative reporting, and later used those skills in the field of climate change, science and the environment. He has been awarded three national Emmys, and two George Foster Peabodys (the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism). Read more about his work here.

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• Senior Advisor for Generative Design

Jessica is a Harvard-trained landscape designer at Offshoots, Inc. She teaches studio courses at the Boston Architectural College involving cross-disciplinary design and construction and is a member of the City of Malden Planning Board. Read more about her work here.

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• Founder
• Executive Director of the Nonpartisan Nonprofit Citizens' Climate International
• Global Strategy Director

Joseph is Executive Director of the nonpartisan nonprofit Citizens' Climate International and Senior Advisor for Sustainable Finance for the EAT Foundation. Geoversiv is an expression of two decades of work toward a generative economic future. Read more about his work here. Joseph is Global Strategy Director for the non-partisan non-profit Citizens' Climate Lobby and leads the Citizens' Climate Engagement Network. He is a member of the Executive Board of the UN-linked NGO Committee on Sustainable Development, a member of the Policy and Strategy Group for the World We Want, and CCL's representative in the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. Joseph is a founding emeritus faculty member of the Villanova University Center for Energy and Environment Education, and editor-in-chief of the Spanish-language eco-economics and sustainability publication FuturismoVerde.

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• Senior Advisor for Integrated Innovation

Julian is an industrial designer, as well as Co-Founder and Executive Producer of LucidNYC, NYC Program Coordinator for Carnegie Mellon's Integrated Innovation Institute, and a Principal of BUZstudios LLC.

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• Senior Advisor for Whole Earth Civics
• UN Permanent Representative

Myra is UN Permanent Representative on Climate for the Commons Cluster, and has earned the title Diplomat of the Biosphere.

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• Board Member & Senior Advisor for Public - Private Partnerships

Tom is the former executive director of the US Global Change Research Program, and an expert in the science of Arctic climate. He is now President of the Madison River Group, LLC.