Nancy Turner is an ethnobotanist whose research integrates the fields of botany and ecology with anthropology, geography and linguistics, among others. She is interested in the traditional knowledge systems and traditional land and resource management systems of Indigenous Peoples, particularly in western Canada.

Langdon Cook is a writer, instructor, and lecturer on wild foods and the outdoors. His books include Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table (Ballantine, May 2017), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, The Mushroom Hunters: A Hidden World of Food, Money, and (Mostly Legal) Adventure, winner of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager 

A multidisciplinary applied environmental scientist with 15 years of experience in research, design, implementation and management of food, agriculture, waste and remediation projects. Danielle is the founder and director of D.I.Y. Fungi (since 2012) offering mycological education, consultation, mushroom cultures, and mycoremediation and waste management research in North America 

Producer of the Mycowizards podcast and an owner operator of Maine Cap N' Stem a certified organic supplier of commercial grade ready-to-fruit substrate and spawn 

Chef, forager, and mycologist Graham received the prestigious Zagat ‘30 under 30’ award for his dedication to cooking and foraging, and has contributed recipes to  the ‘Fantastic Fungi Community Cookbook’ by Eugenia Bone, as well as ‘Wild Mushrooms’ by Trent and Kristen Blizzard. He is one of Colorado state’s certified wild mushroom identification experts and is chef of the Telluride Mushroom Festival Fungi Dinner. He recently founded ‘Biodiversity Collective’, an event company that focuses on fungi education, hands-on learning and travel experiences.

Amy received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Western Colorado University in Gunnison, CO where she studied population genetics of the root pathogen Armillaria. She went on to San Francisco State University for her M.S. While there, she studied the saprophytic mushroom genus Tetrapyrgos from SE Asia. She completed her Ph.D. at University of Washington where she studied the ecology, evolution, and biogeography of the stalked puffball Tulostoma. She currently teaches Mycology and Fungal Ecology for Oregon State University. In addition, she is the co-founder of the Crested Butte Botanic Garden in Crested Butte, CO and is the curator of their fungal collection.  

Robert Rogers B.Sc. RH (AHG), FICN is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild and Herbal Elder of Canada.  An herbalist  for over fifty years with a clinical practice for twenty of them. He taught plant and mushroom medicine for over 26 years at the College and University level, and held the position of assistant clinical professor in family medicine, at the University of Alberta. Robert is the author of over 60 books and 20 peer-reviewed papers, and contributes on a regular basis to Fungi magazine. His most well-known book on fungi is The Fungal Pharmacy, published in 2011.

Peter McCoy is a renowned applied mycology researcher and educator who has endeavored to understand and share the world of fungi with others for over 20 years.He is the author of Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi and The Mycocultural Revolution: Transforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi, the founder of the mycology advocacy organization Radical Mycology, director of the Fungi Film Festival, and the founder and lead instructor at Mycologos, an applied mycology school and experimental fungi farm based in Portland, Oregon. His work with fungi has spanned nearly two decades and includes years of field work in mycoremediation practices, extensive writing on the history of human-fungal relations, and in the presentation of novel hypothesis on the nature of fungal growth, communication, and evolution.

Aaron Hilliard is a Washington-based fungi educator and amateur mycologist who is the Creator of the YouTube channel Mushroom Wonderland where he is known for setting out into the woods and identifying mushrooms, taking strolls with other famous mycologists, and taking deep dives into the world of mycology and fungi filmmaking. Born right at the onset of COVID, the YouTube channel has exploded and gained worldwide attention. An avid mushroom enthusiast since his childhood, when his grandmother taught him to pick edible wild mushrooms. Spending most of his life wandering the forests during the rainy seasons in the Pacific Northwest, he can usually be found with his trusty hound lab Gunnar. In his mid-20s Aaron took an interest in mushroom cultivation and makes a hobby of growing edible gourmet mushrooms. Aaron has been a long time member of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society, is a foray leader and longtime board member, and for the past two years has been Vice President of the Bremerton, WA based club. Aaron has given talks at various colleges and clubs around the country with a mission to help educate about fungi and forest habitat.