Rani Muthukrishnan, Ph.D., Director of Research Compliance, Texas A&M University, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Rani's research interests include consciousness science and diversity of divine feminine manifestation based on the Vedagama tradition, human-nature interaction, nature-culture intersection, children's cognition of nature, advocating for women's roles in relation to nature, culture, and sustainability, and impact of climate change on biodiversity.

Ranjan Datta, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ranjan's research interests include advocating for Indigenous environmental sustainabilities, responsibilities for decolonial research, Indigenous water and energy justice, critical anti-racist climate change resilience, and cross-cultural community research.