Deanna Wulff is the founder of Unite for Parks. She led the campaign for the proposed 1.4-million-acre Range of Light National Monument, developing extensive experience moving major public-land proposals from concept to federal action. Working with Congress, federal agencies, state government, local communities, and tribal leaders, she built grassroots and political support for the largest public-land protection initiative in the Sierra Nevada in the last century. Most recently, she coordinated a bipartisan congressional letter supporting America’s national parks, signed by 72 members of Congress. She has also worked as a National Park Service ranger, river guide, and yoga instructor. Her diverse experience, organizational skills, and relentless focus and drive laid the groundwork for her leading role in the initiative for new national parks. Learn more.

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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson

​Michael is the co-founder and executive director of RESTORE, has been a wilderness and national parks activist for more than 35 years. From 1986 through 1992, he worked as the northeast director and Michigan representative of The Wilderness Society. He has visited more than 250 National Park System units in 45 states and U.S. territories. Michael has served on the board of American Lands Alliance, Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance, Thoreau Farm Trust, and Walden Forever Wild, as well as on the advisory board of the Walden Woods Project and Save Our Heritage. For years, he has tracked proposed parks and conservation initiatives, and visited 267 park units. He developed the original 3.2-million-acre proposal for Maine Woods, which laid the groundwork for Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. He lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and supports parks across the nation. 

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Each town should have a park… a common possession forever.  Henry David Thoreau. 

Aaron works at the intersection of technology, art, science, storytelling and conservation. A technology innovator, Aaron is currently Chief Technology Officer of Immersion Analytics, where he makes complex information more accessible and intuitive. He is also a co-founder of AiR VR Studio. A classically trained violinist, he has performed as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician. He is also a nature cinematographer whose work has focused on the Klamath-Siskiyou region of Southern Oregon. His documentary, Klamath, explores the extraordinary diversity of a landscape he has spent years exploring. His work, expressed through a violin, a camera, or a computer, reflects a common impulse: to help people cherish the world around them.

Susan A. Masino, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Applied Science at Trinity College in Hartford CT. Dr. Masino is the chair of the Open Space Committee in Simsbury, CT, is the Hartford County Coordinator for the Old Growth Forest Network, and was a Charles Bullard Fellow in Forest Research at Harvard University. Her laboratory-based research focuses on mechanisms of brain health and disease, and her scholarship outside the lab focuses on the power of wild nature to stabilize the climate, support communities, and protect the web of life.

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Nature is not more complicated than we think, it is more complicated than we CAN think. Dr. Frank Edwin Egler, plant ecologist

Lowell is an expert birder, environmental advocate and formerly the President of Yosemite Area Audubon. He is the winner of the Charles H. Callison Award for volunteerism, Audubon's highest national honor. He has pursued environmental and social justice all his life, working on the Audubon's campaign to save the tri-colored blackbird. Audubon recently designated the Southern Sierra Nevada Important Bird Area (IBA) in his honor - it is the second largest IBA in the nation. Read more about it here.. He also worked on the successful campaign to prevent smoking inside California Restaurants, and has been a delegate and active member of the California Democratic Party Executive Board. He is a board member of Unite 4 Parks.

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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. C. S. Lewis

Katie is leading the campaign to protect the Southern Sierra Nevada with diplomacy, good will and collaboration with the local community. She an avid outdoorswoman, a youth leader, and an expert birder. She began her career as a Veterinary Technician and in her youth developed an affinity for the Allegheny Mountain Woodlands in Pennsylvania. When she moved to California, her passion for the golden state's diverse environment was ignited. Now living in Fresno, she is most at home in the Sierra Nevada. She serves as the Outreach Chair for the Fresno Audubon Society and clinical staff for the Bay Area Street Dog Coalition, and she dedicates her time to the wild lands she holds dear. 

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You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward. Jimmy Chin