Lucy holds PhD from University College London. She is a specialist in agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, with a focus on landscape scale rehabilitation and financing mechanisms of natural capital. She is passionate about reconciling biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation, improving supply chains to increase the uptake of sustainable resource use and assessing the causes of forest conversion. She serves on the boards of Tambopata Reserve Society, the LEAF foundation and has supported the boards of ARCAmazon and Wild Forests and Fauna since their inception.

Ursula is a Peruvian entrepreneur who specializes in permaculture, agroforestry and environmental education. Ursula has lived in the Peruvian Amazon since 2005 with a focus on educating children and families, facilitating social enterprises for conservation and leading start-up environmental projects. Ursula consults on permaculture design with a rich understanding of landscaping, gardening and sustainable horticulture. She is the Executive Director of Camino Verde, a Peru-USA organization that leads highly successful agroforestry initiatives in the Tambopata Region. She also runs her own reforestation demonstration center within the city of Puerto Maldonado.

Laurel is a British-Peruvian conservation biologist focused on protecting highly threatened rainforest and dedicated to fighting corruption within the land-rights system in Peru. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a first class honors in zoology and then completed a PhD studying the genetic and non-genetic consequences of captive breeding and release of owls. Living in the Peruvian Amazon since 1997, frequent guiding jobs progressed to permanent residency which is when she built and began operating Picaflor Research Centre and setup a 1,300 hectare private conservation area. Laurel is also an organic farmer and green building designer.

Nancy is a consultant, coach and powerful connector. She is passionate about designing systems for collaboration and ways we can work together for mutual benefit of people and planet. She facilitates the translation of a collective vision into workable applications in ways that are self-sustaining and activate leadership. Specifically, she seeds projects through co-visioning processes, team design and recruitment, project management, organizational strategy, coaching and collaboration architecture. She is a co-founder of two non-profit impact driven enterprises; Yellow-Seed facilitates connection between farmers at origin and fair markets, and WildFF supports local leadership in conservation of wild forest frontiers.

Alfredo is a Peruvian public relations specialist with a degree from the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima. Using PR to publicly share the Amazon and its internal conflicts, he has led work focused on conflict resolution within indigenous and rural communities. Alfredo has led socioeconomic research in key conservation areas throughout Peru resulting in his strong advocacy for rainforest conservation and sustainable development for long-term economic sustainability of remote communities.

Luis is a Peruvian biologist and ornithologist from Chachapoyas, driven by a dream to develop his career in the Peruvian Amazon. He has led wildlife research throughout important biological regions including Manu National Park, Los Amigos, Las Piedras, Tambopata, the Manu-Tambopata (MAT) Corridor and Chachapoyas. Luis specializes in cloud forest and lowland rainforest ecosystems, having worked with The Field Museum of Chicago, The Edgar Grey Institute, Oxford University, Kansas University and the Amazon Conservation Association to understand human impacts on rainforest ecosystems. Luis led the in-field setup LPAC and community relations during ARCAmazon's critical first year in Las Piedras.