El Jurado

Elma Kay

Elma Kay is Professor of Science at the University of Belize in Belmopan, Belize. She earned her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from St. Louis University. Her research combines the disciplines of ecology, evolution and systematics. 

Mike Perlstein

Mike Perlstein is a visiting assistant professor of communications at Loyola University’s, School of Mass Communication in New Orleans, LA. He wrote for the New Orleans Times-Picayune for 20 years, winning two Pulitzer Prizes as part of a team that covered Hurricane Katrina.

Robert Taylor

Rob Taylor is director of Science & Environment Programs at the International Center for Journalists, based in Washington, DC. He spent 30 years writing for newspapers, mainly the Wall Street Journal, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Philadelphia Bulletin.

Scott Miller

Scott Miller, CEO of Resource Media, which provides public relations services to environmental groups in the western U.S. For 16 years he was an award-winning environmental correspondent for King-5 TV in Seattle, WA.