Dawn Anahid MacKeen is an award winning investigative journalist who spent nearly a decade on her grandfather's story. Previously she was a staff writer at Salon, Newsday, and Smart Money. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Southern California.
John R. Mabry
John R. Mabry, PhD teaches comparative theology, scripture, and pastoral ministry at the Chaplaincy Institute. Rev. Mabry is also the director of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate program. He is a United Church of Christ pastor and the author of many textbooks on interfaith spiritual guidance, among many other subjects. Check out his website and get a FREE BOOK at www.johnrmabry.com/free
Dr. Charles Ian McNeill
For 30 years, Dr. Charles Ian McNeill has been a leader in the United Nations building innovative multi-sector partnerships to solve global environmental challenges. He played a key role in transforming UNDP from a development organization into a leading global environmental actor. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Forests & Climate for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and is overseeing the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, an international alliance bringing faith-based leadership to local and global efforts to end tropical deforestation. Previously, Dr. McNeill managed UNDP’s work on forests, biodiversity, climate change, sustainable energy, stakeholder engagement and public-private partnerships. In that capacity he founded and led catalytic global initiatives, including the UN-REDD Programme, the Equator Initiative, the global coalition that delivered the New York Declaration on Forests at the 2014 UN Climate Summit, and the Indigenous Peoples Initiative for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. He also served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Forests. Dr. McNeill received his Ph.D. in Genetics with a focus on conservation biology, from the University of California at Davis.