Nancy Jackson has had an impressive career in the non-profit sector. Nancy founded and directed the Climate + Energy Project (CEP) from 2007 to 2010. CEP received the Governor’s Commendation for achievement in renewable energy and efficiency in 2009 and was featured on the front page of the New York Times and in Lawrence Berkley Lab and Discovery documentaries in 2010. Nancy earned a bachelor's degree in Humanities and an M.A. in Environmental History from the University of Kansas.

Rod Bremby had a 30-year public sector career at the state and local levels. Rod served as Assistant City Manager of the City of Lawrence, KS from 1990-2000. From 2003-2011 he was Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state’s largest and most complex regulatory agency with responsibilities for a varied portfolio of policies, as its name implies. After leaving Kansas, Bremby led Connecticut’s health and human service agency from 2011-2019.

Roger McCoy is a native Kansan who grew up on a farm near Spivey, Kansas, in Kingman County. He graduated from Attica High School in the mid-1950s and took his first job in the oil industry, driving a tank truck during the summer before he started at the Municipal University of Wichita, later renamed Wichita State University. Roger graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geology in 1959. McCoy’s entire professional career has been in the oil industry.

A native Kansan, Tracy Streeter grew up on a diversified family farm in Brown County, Kansas and graduated from Horton High School. He earned undergraduate degrees from Highland Community College and Missouri Western State University and a graduate degree from the University of Kansas. Streeter served eight years on the Valley Falls Board of Education and is a private pilot.

Wes Jackson was born in 1936 on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After attending Kansas Wesleyan (B.A Biology, 1958), he studied botany (M.A. University of Kansas, 1960) and genetics (Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 1967). He was a professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan and later established the Environmental Studies department at California State University, Sacramento, where he became a tenured full professor. He resigned that position in 1976 and returned to Kansas to found The Land Institute. Dr.