Mark Titus is the creator of Eva’s Wild and director of the award winning films, The Breach and The Wild. He’s currently working on a third film in his salmon trilogy, The Turn. In early 2021, Mark launched his podcast, Save What You Love, interviewing exceptional people devoting their lives in ways big and small to the protection of things they love. Through his storytelling, Mark Titus carries the message that humanity has an inherent need for wilderness and to fulfill that need we have a calling to protect wild places and wild things.

Aaron Kindle focuses on numerous hunter/angler conservation efforts for the National Wildlife Federation including keeping public lands in public hands, promoting responsible energy development, advocating for pro hunting, angling, and wildlife policies in state legislatures, and elevating the National Wildlife Federation’s sporting voice across the country.

Aleesha Towns-Bain is the executive director of the Bristol Bay Education Foundation (BBEF). Her work with the foundation is rooted in providing resources for the resilience and education of Bristol Bay’s young people of Indigenous descent - all of whom are shareholders in the Bristol Bay Native Corporation.

Alexandra Climent is a rainforest conservationist, sculptural artist, and the founder of Endangered Rainforest Rescue, a women and Indigenous-led nonprofit organization working to restore biodiversity by planting endangered tree species and protecting indigenous land in the Darién Gap of Panamá. The Darién Gap stands as a vital ecological corridor connecting the Americas, holding immense importance in safeguarding the global ecosystem. The work of Alexandra’s organization is not only crucial at a local scale but also pivotal for worldwide climate mitigation efforts.

AlexAnna Salmon was raised in the Village of Igiugig. She is the granddaughter of John and Mary Olympic, and the second oldest of Dan and Julia Salmon. In 2008, she graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual Bachelor’s degree in Native American Studies and Anthropology. She returned to work for the Igiugig Tribal Village Council as President and Project Director. AlexAnna also serves as a member of the Lake and Peninsula Borough Planning Commission, Igiugig Native Corporation board and the Nilavena Tribal Health Consortium board. She loves spending time with her family, village life and traveling.

Amanda Wlaysewski owns two businesses supplying salmon to the world; she’s also finishing her PhD in anthropology. In her spare time, Amanda and her family find a reverence for each fish that passes through her processing plant in Naknek and pass that along to their employees.

Amy Gulick is an acclaimed nature photographer and writer and a Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers. Her images and stories have been featured in Audubon, National Wildlife, Outdoor Photographer, and other publications. Her work has received numerous honors including the prestigious Daniel Housberg Wilderness Image Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, the Voice of the Wild Award from the Alaska Wilderness League, and a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.

pay’uq Moore is a Yup’ik artist and activist. She creates art that exemplifies the best parts of the traditional Yup’ik way of life and raises her two kids off-grid in Bristol Bay, Alaska. She advocates for social justice, indigenous rights and the sanctity of Bristol Bay’s headwaters – fighting for decades to block the proposed Pebble Mine.

April Bencze is a brilliant photographer, writer and visionary who lives on Gilford Island, British Columbia.

April Vokey is an adventurer, fly fishing writer, host of the Anchored and Into The Backing Podcasts, and founder of Anchored Outdoors. After guiding in British Columbia for ten years, she now splits her year between camp in northern BC and Australia.

Ashley Koff RD is a 20+ year award- winning personalized nutrition expert. Koff’s a triple threat as a practitioner, consultant and speaker helping thousands get and stay healthy powered by better nutrition. Today, as the founder of The Better Nutrition Program, Koff leads a team developing cutting- edge personalized nutrition tools and programs to optimize health.

Ash Rodriguez is a Seattle-based award winning food writer and photographer. She is the author of three cookbooks; Date Night In, Let’s Stay In, and Rooted Kitchen - which just came out here in the Spring of ‘24. Ash is also the host and co-creator of the James Beard nominated series, Kitchen Unnecessary; an online series which uncovers the world of wild foods through foraging, fishing and regenerative harvesting. Ash and her work have been featured in Outside Magazine, Food & Wine, Saveur, Epicurious, Edible Seattle and many more.

Chad Brown founded Soul River, a non-profit organization bringing inner-city youth and military veterans together in the wilderness where they learn to become leaders in conservation and their communities. His new venture, Love is King, is committed to providing equal opportunity to ensure equitable and safe access to the outdoors for children, families, and communities of people of color as a way to improve the physical, mental and spiritual health.

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Conservation Connection. At the age of five, Chance stood in front of a crowd, hoping to inspire others to take action to protect the environment. HIs passion for the planet continued throughout his education and has honed his skills as a scientist and communicator. After meeting Sarah Kathryn while working in the Florida Keys, they started the non-profit Conservation Connection to inspire action on behalf of the environments that they so deeply care about.

Chris Zimmer has been with Rivers Without Borders since 2001. He has worked on environmental issues for over 25 years in Washington, Montana and Alaska, including nuclear weapons testing, Columbia River dams and salmon, forest campaigns and transboundary issues.

CEO, Eighth Generation, is a born organizer, change-maker, and leader with over twenty years’ experience championing Seattle’s Native and at-risk populations. Her experiences as an Indigenous woman, small business owner, community organizer, and executive leader inform her efforts in building a community of justice and reconciliation.

Dave McCoy is a Patagonia ambassador, fly fishing guide, and founder of Emerald Water Anglers.

David Holbrooke is a filmmaker and cultural entrepreneur who bought originalthinkers.com in 2004, believing that film was the best way to convey the big ideas that were missing in the public dialogue. The Original Thinkers ideas festival in Telluride, CO, which has since become a burgeoning media company with live events, films and other media assets.

David James Duncan is an award-winning American novelist and essayist, best known for his two bestselling novels, The River Why and The Brothers K.

Aaron Adams, PhD. has lived, worked, and fished on both coasts of the US, and in the Caribbean, where he has been conducting fish research for more than 25 years. His pursuit of effective fish and habitat conservation is rooted in his years growing up near Chesapeake Bay, where he witnessed the decline of the Bay’s habitats and fisheries. Aaron received a bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s College in Maryland, a Master’s degree from the College of William and Mary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and also holds a Coast Guard Captain’s License. He now holds the roles of Director of Science and Conservation at the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust (BTT) and he’s a Senior Scientist, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Florida Atlantic University.

Daniel Schindler has spent decades studying salmon in the Bristol Bay watershed. He’s a professor of fisheries sciences at the University of Washington. His research seeks to understand the causes and consequences of ecosystem dynamics.

Dr. Jason Ransom is the wildlife program supervisor with the North Cascades National Park Service and adjunct professor at Washington State University School of the environment. He has a PhD and MSC in ecology from Colorado State University, and has traveled the world working with large carnivores.

Dr. Jenifer McIntyre is an Associate Professor of aquatic toxicologist at the Puyallup Research and Extension Center. She currently researches the ecotoxicology of stormwater runoff and the biological effectiveness of green stormwater infrastructure as a project lead on the Puget Sound Stormwater Science Team – a collaborative effort between WSU, US Fish & Wildlife Service, and NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

Dr. Jennifer Galvin drives societal progress by turning resources—both human and financial—into social impact. She’s known for producing human-centered projects and directing investment in people, places, and programs to elevate global health.

From Food Network Star to social entrepreneur, Emma Frisch has always known one thing to be true: good food brings people together.

Erin Ranney is a wildlife cinematographer based in Alaska, Washington State and the Falkland Islands. As a cinematographer, she’s captured footage for companies such as BBC, PBS, Smithsonian, Disney+ and National Geographic. One of her most recent series includes the National Geographic/Disney+ series ‘Queens’, which recently premiered in March 2024. While experienced in filming wildlife on land, Erin is also a deep- sea video engineer and she’s a trained guide and naturalist in bear country. Additionally, she’s a third generation commercial fisherwoman in the largest sockeye salmon run in the world. She runs a commercial set net fishing operation in Bristol Bay Alaska and has spent time at remote fishing camps since she was a toddler.

Guido Rahr is President and CEO of the Wild Salmon Center in Portland, OR. With the organization, he has developed scientific research, habitat protection and fisheries improvement projects in dozens of rivers in Japan, the Russian Far East, Alaska, British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest ,protecting 7.7 million acres of wild salmon habitat.

Hannah Lux is the owner of Moxie Beauty Boutique in Seattle. She continues to find ways to give back to the work she believes in - including and especially, the fight for Bristol Bay.

Howard was born in 1954 and has lived on the Isle of Arran since the age of 14. He has been diving the seas around Arran and Scotland since 1973. Since 2003 he has spent the majority of his time volunteering with COAST. He has an extensive knowledge of the marine environment in the Clyde has created a photographic and video archive of Arran marine life. Howard was COAST’s chair for 10 years before stepping down in 2018. He was involved in writing marine management proposals to the Scottish Government, including the final Arran Marine Regeneration Trial proposal of February 2005. These led to the creation of a No Take Zone in Lamlash Bay designated in 2008. He was also a key primary source of marine survey records supporting the COAST South Arran Marine Protected Area proposal designated in 2014. Since designation he has led baseline surveys of the area. He has attended many meetings with Government, Scottish Natural Heritage, Marine Scotland and fishermens’ associations and has also appeared before Parliamentary Committees on a number of occasions.

Ian Gill is a journalist, author, conservationist and bookseller. He is co-creator of Salmon Nation, co-owner of the independent Vancouver bookstore Upstart & Crow, and is a contributing editor at The Tyee.

Joel Reynolds is the Western Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He has also led several of NRDC’s largest campaigns: to preserve the birthing lagoon of gray whales in Baja California; to protect the California State Park at San Onofre; to reduce underwater noise pollution that threatens ocean wildlife; and, most recently, to halt the construction of the environmentally destructive Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.

Joseph Rossano is a multidisciplinary artist, environmentalist and outdoorsman. His work explores themes of natural history, extinction, taxonomy, DNA, and conservation, in the genres of assemblage and installation art.

Julie Paama-Pengelly is a Māori tā moko artist, painter, commentator, & curator and is a veteran in the revitalization of taa moko Maaori tattooing. Her studio in Mount Maunganui mixes contemporary and traditional designs and cultivates artists from all walks of life. With expansive teaching experience, her art practice ranges from the use of symbolic imagery to pure abstraction in graphic design, painting, mixed media, and tattooing. Over time many misconceptions have surfaced about who has the right to wear and practice taa moko. Julie is one of the first women to practice in the male-dominated field. She is a strong voice for Maaori women’s rights and continues to break down barriers to give women a place in taa moko and in the arts.

Kel Moody is a community cultivator and placemaker. As the founder of Alluvium Gatherings, they create and uplift movements through the design, planning, and implementation of gatherings. They have a passion for convening communities and leading teams to create meaningful experiences.

Kyle Gleason is a Bristol Bay commercial fisherman. He helped produce The Breach and The Wild films with director, Mark Titus.

Leah is an award winning filmmaker who’s feature documentary, Big Sonja, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2017. She values authenticity, loyalty, grit, and gratitude, which you can see in all her work that includes The Breach and The Wild films.

Linda Behnken, is a commercial fisherman and Executive Director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA). Working at the intersection of industry, community and the environment, she has led efforts to support small-scale fishermen and promote their access to Alaska’s fishery resources. Most notably, her work has effectively demonstrated that by engaging fishermen in research, management and stewardship, both the viability of small-scale fisheries and the ecosystem upon which fishing communities depend can be strengthened and sustained for future generations.

Melanie Brown is a sockeye salmon harvester in Bristol Bay with Indigenous roots to that place and other places along the western and southwestern coasts of Alaska.

Nanci Morris Lyon is co-owner and operator of Bear Trail Lodge, was brought up north because of her love of fish and the small town feel of King Salmon and the Naknek river. She has been a fishing guide in Alaska since her early 20s. After spending years learning from the Bristol Bay environment and its people, Nanci saw a need for the local lodges and an opportunity for the local youth and passes her knowledge on to future generations as the lead instructor and one of the original founders of the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide academy.

Olivia Watkins serves as Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director at Black Farmer Fund. Olivia is a social entrepreneur and impact investor. For the past seven years, she has financed, developed, and operated environmental and social projects across the US. She also serves as a board member for Soul Fire Farm Institute.

Peter Gros is a veteran wildlife expert. As the co-host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, Peter Gros shares his love of wildlife and wilderness with audiences throughout the country. Gros joined the original Wild Kingdom team in 1985 and has nearly 30 years of field experience with captive wildlife, establishing breeding programs for endangered animals and rehabilitation programs for birds of prey. He's a frequent lecturer on conservation and preservation around the United States and Canada. His mission is to excite people about wildlife and teach them to understand and care about the natural world.

Phil Davis is the author of The Last Salmon - a story with a salmon-eye view of a salmon's last journey back to the place of its birth.

Ray Hilborn is a marine biologist and fisheries scientist, known for his work on conservation and natural resource management in the context of fisheries. He is currently professor of aquatic and fishery science at the University of Washington.

is an American artist based in Ketchikan, Alaska.[1] He is best known for his scientifically accurate and often humorous artwork. His most well-known design is "Spawn Till You Die", which has appeared in many places including the film Superbad and being worn by actor Daniel Radcliffe.

Richard (Chalyee Éesh) Peterson is Tlingit from the Kaagwaantaan clan. Chalyee Éesh currently serves as Chair of the Alaska Tribal Unity, and on the Data for Indigenous Justice Advisory, Tlingit Haida Tribal Business Corporation board, United States Forest Service Alaska Tribal Leadership and Tongass Advisory committees, and in various other appointed positions to represent tribal interest on Alaska Native issues.

Robert J. Miller’s areas of expertise are Federal Indian Law, American Indians and international law, American Indian economic development, Native American natural resources, and Civil Procedure. He is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, the Interim Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals and sits as a judge for other tribes. He is the Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at ASU and the Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program at ASU.

Russ Ricketts is an incredible underwater photographer/videographer living in Leavenworth, WA. He runs River Snorkeling as well as Colchuck Media with his wife, outdoor adventure and lifestyle photographer Leah Hemberry Ricketts.

Co-founder and CEO of Conservation Connection. From a young age, Sarah Kathryn has held a deep love for marine mammals and after visiting the aquarium to see dolphins with her grandmother, she became obsessed with the ocean. With a degree in psychology from Auburn and an informal education and background in scientific research, she created the Conservation Connection podcast, with her husband Chance. Together, they’re sharing their knowledge of the planet and how to care for it.

Skye Steritz is a small business owner, an activist and a teacher. She co-owns Noble Ocean Farms with her husband, Sean, which aims to improve both human health and ocean health through cultivating sugar kelp, ribbon kelp, and bull kelp in a responsible and ethical way. As an activist, she works to protect clean water and is actively involved in habitat preservation and restoration in the Eyak territory of Alaska, where she lives year-round.

Stacy Bare is a husband, father, skier, rafter, surfer and climber. As a veteran of the Iraq war, he co-founded the Great Outdoors Lab (GO Lab) in 2014 to put scientifically defensible data behind the idea of time outside as healthcare in partnership with Dr. Dacher Keltner at the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Stacy is a 2014 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year & the 2015 SHIFT Conservation Athlete of the Year. In 2015, he launched Adventure Not War (ANW), a project designed to take him back to all the places he fought, cleaned up after war, or was supposed to fight. Today, Stacy is the Executive Director of Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, an organization working to increase equal access to the outdoors and empower people to cultivate vibrant parks, trees, and green spaces in the Grand Rapids area.

Tim Troll is the Executive Director of the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust, a conservation organization with mission to preserve the pristine salmon and wildlife habitat in Alaska's Bristol Bay. He is the author/editor of Sailing for Salmon: The Early Years of Commercial Fishing in Alaska's Bristol Bay - 1884 to 1951.

Todd Soliday has over 25 years experience on film/television projects around the globe. Todd and his wife/partner in crime, Leah own Inflatable Film and worked on both The Breach and The Wild films with Mark. His passion for adventure drives his documentary storytelling.

Chef, food activist, gardener, fishing fanatic & father to three, lover of Tiki dog. Simpsonized. @CHFTYPizzas 🍕

Tom Douglas is an American executive chef, restaurateur, author, and radio talk show host, and winner of the 1994 James Beard Award for Best Northwest Chef. In 2012 he also won the James Beard Award as Best Restaurateur.

Virginia Tenpenny is an industry leader and pioneer with proven success driving social innovation, designing and implementing social impact agendas at scale, and encouraging long-term thinking to help companies redefine ROI and establish business as a force for good.

Woody Tasch is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green), SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital (Slow Money Institute), and AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute). Tasch is former chairman of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit angel network that has facilitated more than $200 million of investments in over 300 early-stage, sustainability-promoting companies. As treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation in the 1990s, he was a pioneer of mission-related investing. He was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. Utne Reader named him “One Of 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

Zach is an Alaskan. And a fisherman. And he happens to play bass for Wasilla Alaska’s own, Portugal. The Man.