Rummy is a 9th grader at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences who loves playing tennis and making music. He grew up in the Alphabet Streets of Pacific Palisades and lost his childhood home in the 2025 L.A wildfires. Looking for a way to channel the loss and help heal his community, he recruited hundreds of volunteers to make thousands of seed bombs for Altadena and the Palisades. Through the Seed Bomb Project, he hopes to gives youth who have been affected by fire and other climate disasters a positive way to take an active role in their communities’ recovery.

Dana is an investigative journalist, podcaster, poet, and mother of two. She writes frequently about art, science, culture, and politics for The New Yorker. She is a two-time winner of the James Beard Foundation award for journalism and a National Magazine Award nominee, who has published two collections of poems and a book about adventurous eating. Since moving to Los Angles in 2005, she has reported on many wildfires and lived through one.

Sara Luke has been an educator since 2001, dedicated to weaving sustainability and service learning into the fabric of schools. At Environmental Charter High School, in South Los Angeles, she helped transform the campus into a nationally recognized center of sustainability and environmental innovation. She was a founding board member of the Green Schools National Network and the creator of the Green Ambassadors Service Learning Program, which empowered thousands of students to design solutions for real-world environmental challenges. Over her career, Sara has worked with students, teachers, universities, and community partners to inspire advocacy for the planet and to be a voice for things that cannot speak. She is a National Board Certified Science Teacher and currently teaches science at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences. Her work blends education, equity, and ecology, always with the goal of cultivating the next generation of changemakers.

Angie is a writer, nonprofit leadership and development consultant, event producer, and mother. She is a champion of environmental and community wellness, social justice and equity, and mental health awareness and advocacy. She is a past Executive Director of Stepping Stones Project, a youth mentoring and contemporary rites-of-passage organization and past Director of Fundraising of Worthy Beyond Purpose, a mindfulness and meditation organization for LA youth.