Ellinor Ädelroth is Professor emerita in respiratory medicine at Umeå University and a retired respiratory physician.  Her main research interests during her active years were asthma, inflammation , effects of medications on the airways, and also the effects of air pollution on the respiratory system. She has since childhood held a keen interest in what was then called ”third world countries” and has visited several African countries. She was head of the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at

Maria Nilsson is a Professor in Public health with the orientation climate change and health. She is based at the department of Epidemiology and global health, Umeå University. Her research interest is focused on climate change health adaptation with a specific interest for vulnerable populations, on risk- and health communication and on knowledge translation. Including perspectives as equity, justice and human rights are central in her work. Maria leads externally funded projects in low- and middle-income countries, but also in

Isak Stoddard is a PhD candidate in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at the Department of Earth Science, Uppsala University. His research is currently focused on the strategies and imaginaries informing regional climate and energy transitions within Sweden.  Over the past decade he has worked in various capacities at the student-initiated Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) at the University of Uppsala and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. At CEMUS, his worked mainly focused on developing transdisciplinary approaches to higher education on a myriad

Dr. Anne Ouma was born and raised in the eastern Lake Victoria Region of Africa. As a scholar, Anne is motivated to work and build on understandings between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples through story- telling, listening, research, writing and teaching. Anne is an economic and social cultural geographer with a specialization in ethnobotanical knowledge and critical research with indigenous societies and communities. She looks at geographies of indigenous ethnobotany, socio-spatial transformation, socio-cultural determinants of health and work with plant based

Keri Facer is a Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol and previously a Zennström Professor in Climate Change and Leadership at Uppsala University . Her work focuses on the forms of knowledge and educational practices needed to create flourishing communities in conditions of disruptive technological and environmental change. She has a particular interest in informal learning in cities and communities and the role of the arts, myth and storytelling as powerful educational resources. From 2002-2008

Dr. Stellan Vinthagen is professor of sociology, a scholar-activist, and the Inaugural Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance at the University of Massachusetts. He is also editor of the Journal of Resistance Studies, co-editor of the Rowman & Littlefield book series on Resistance Studies, co-leader of the Resistance Studies Group at University of Gothenburg, Sweden and co-founder of the International Resistance Studies Network, as well as a council member of War Resisters International, and academic advisor to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

Ellacarin Blind,  living in Ubmeje (Umeå) have worked at  the National  Associationen of the Saami people  (SSR) in Sweden since year  2000. Before that she worked at the Departement of Saami studies at Umeå University where she was teaching in Saami culture. She have also worked as a radiojournalist at the  public Saami radio station  in Giron (Kiruna). Ellacarin have grown up in a reindeer-hearding family in Arjeplog Municipality in The County of Norrbotten, Sweden. Ellacarin´s main interest areas are

Evelina Rönnbäck is a freelance photographer and writer focusing on documentary storytelling in a broad variation of contexts in many countries and regions. Her work is closely related to her interest for human rights, peace and nonviolence, international relations and sustainable devolpment. Over a decade she’s been working within the field of journalism, in her own projects, as well as together with organisations and other partners who are working for sustainable global development in various ways. She grew up in

Nicholas is an artist researcher (PhD) from Brazil based in Malmö, Sweden. Nicholas works on the intersections of design, music and arts with focus on decolonial and pluriversal approaches. Nicholas has a background in improvisational, countercultural and collaborative art practices such as Participatory Design, Graffitti, Capoeira and Brazilian music. Nicholas is also a professional Luthier, building musical instruments under the brand Maa Guitars and providing consultancy for companies in the music industry business. Besides this, Nicholas is a professional bass

Born in 1978 with a Swedish-Turkis background Emre Gürler is a social innovator and an entreprenurial spirit with more than 20 years experience form the Swedish and global business arena. He has held key positions within Bonnier Magazines, Expressen, Hyper Island and SOLVATTEN. He´s been studyig business and entrepreneurship at Växjö University, international business and mandarin at Macau University in Chinga as well as subjects at Makarere University in Uganda. The last 10 years he has had a special focus

Dr Valli Pillai-Batchelor is an educator and creative artist with combined expertise in applied finance and intercultural arts. She advocates for economic justice, community health and multi stakeholder partnerships. Sustainable development, eradication of poverty, violence prevention, gender equality, diversity, cultural norms and faith-based issues are integral to her work. Her Australian doctorate research on interest-free banking and finance led to academic positions in 5 countries and invitations for contribution at international and ecumenical platforms - including UN Commission on Status of Women

Jonas Reyes Forsberg is a family man, business owner and consultant, with nearly two decades of hands-on experience from business development in Sweden and Bangladesh. Jonas is a problem solver, often driven by frustration or anger. When faced with the fact that most consumer goods are produced without regards to workers rights or the environment, he tried to start his own factory to prove that there is another way. When he couldn’t find a book keeping firm who spoke (and