Victoria Derr, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where her teaching and research focus on the intersections between sustainable communities, place-based environmental education, and social justice, particularly in under-represented communities.

Yolanda Corona holds a Ph.D. in Ethnohistory and is a professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Autonomous University of Mexico-Xochimilco. Her recent research and teaching include topics of children’s participation and children’s relationship with nature. She provides educational programs about children´s rights to teachers and cultural promoters.