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Jonathan Adams has spent more than two decades writing about the science and practice of conservation. A science writer and conservation biologist, he often writes as an insider with an outsider’s perspective.

Jonathan is the author of The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World published by Beacon Press, about which Library Journal wrote (in a starred review): “Visionary, optimistic, doable, and essential, Adams’s approach is a pioneering guidebook to nature.”  He was co-editor of Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, published by Oxford University Press is the co-author, with Thomas McShane, of The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion published by W. W. Norton. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Robert S. O. Harding said about the book, “The authors make the complexity of the continent, its ecosystems and its political problems abundantly clear.”

Jonathan is the former program director of the Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Knowledge and Communities Program. His latest book, Nature’s Fortune, written in collaboration with Mark R. Tercek, was published by Basic Books and was the winner of the 2014 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Award in the category of Business.

Fred Anderson is professor emeritus of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of five books including The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 with Andrew Cayton. Called “a magnificent accomplishment” by Andrew J. Bacevich in his Washington Post review, the book was named one of the best books of 2005 by the Washington Post and a 2005 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement.

Fred also is the author of The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War, published as a companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the same name. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Jay Winik called the book, “a rich, cautionary tale about the unpredictability of war.”

His earlier book, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, was the winner of three prizes: the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Colorado Book Award and it was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Non-Fiction. And his first book, A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years’ War was published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture and was awarded the 1982 Jamestown Prize as best first book in early American history.

Virginia DeJohn Anderson is the author of The Martyr and the Traitor: The Perilous Lives of Nathan Hale and Moses Dunbar, a dual biography of revolutionary America. Published by Oxford University Press, It was awarded the 2017 Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award.

Virginia’s previous book, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, also published by Oxford University Press, was praised as “€œa most original, gracefully written, and thoroughly fascinating exploration of Colonial history,” by the Boston Globe and lauded as “necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand colonial history,”€ by the American Historical Review. Creatures of Empire won the 2005 Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society book award.

Virginia is Professor of History at the University of Colorado. She earned her B.A. from the University of Connecticut, completed an M.A. degree at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, as a Marshall Scholar, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Sugata Biswas has been a management consultant with some of the leading consulting firms in private, public, and nonprofit sectors including Accenture, IBM Global Services/The Wilkerson Group, RAND Corporation, and Viant.

He has been working in the healthcare sector for more than 20 years, and started Cadence Communications & Research in 2009 with a focus on the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

He graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in economics and holds an MBA from Yale School of Management. He is the coauthor, with Daryl Twitchell, of Management Consulting: A Complete Guide to the Industry, now in its second edition.