Maddy is an Australian maritime archaeologist with a career spanning over a decade. Her research currently focuses on mystery shipwrecks of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, driven in understanding how wooden shipwrecks form on reef environments and finding clues to their identity.

Angelique is a lawyer (qualified in Seychelles and UK) and she holds an LLM in Environmental law specializing in the law of the sea and natural resources law. Angelique is a trained climate change negotiator under the AOSIS Climate Change Fellowship Programme at the United Nations.

Zandile Ndhlovu is South Africa’s first Black African Freediving Instructor, and the founder of The Black Mermaid Foundation, an organization seeking to create diverse representation in the Ocean Arena, her work centres around enabling access to Ocean spaces to local ocean facing communities in hope to diversify Ocean spaces recreationally, professionally and in sport, while creating a new generation of Ocean guardians.

Cristina is an adventurer, conservationist, writer, and photographer. In 2005, she founded the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) to provide a platform for photographers working on environmental issues. Cristina also co-founded Sea Legacy with her partner, Paul Nicklen.

Kristina is a High Seas Policy Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature Global Marine and Polar Program. She is also an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, where she teaches an intensive course on international marine law.

Andrea Contreras, Eni Owoeye, Sierra Garcia, and Chloe McKenna are all members of the US Youth Advisory Council for the UN Ocean Decade.

Dr. Moore is the Black In Marine Science Program Lead at The Nature Conservancy. Inside and outside of the lab, Dr. Moore hopes her research in biodiversity will translate to increasing the overall diversity in science. She dedicates her time to mentoring minority women in the lab and in after school programs. Founder of A WOC SPACE, Dr. Moore aspires to make a safe and inclusive workplace for women of color (WOC) through WOCShops, individual personal trainings, and community outreach.

Oyeronke Mojisola Adegbile ( aka Ronky) is a Chief Research Officer at the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR). She has a master's degree in fisheries and a bachelor's degree in Zoology from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. She is a fellow of the Leadership in Environment and Development International. Her research includes a broad range including sea turtles, fisheries and Marine debris research and monitoring in the Nigerian Coastal Zone

Anna R. Oposa is the Executive Director and "Chief Mermaid" of Save Philippine Seas, a movement to protect coastal and marine resources by empowering seatizens towards collective action and behavior change. She graduated with a degree in BA English Studies from the University of the Philippines-Diliman and obtained her MSc in Conservation Science from Imperial College London as a Chevening scholar.

Danni Washington is a TV host and science communicator who is also the first African-American woman to host her own science television series. She is also the co-founder of Big Blue & You, scuba diver, co-creator of Sea Youth Rise Up, inspirational speaker, and a passionate advocate for ocean conservation.

Mariasole is a marine conservationist, environmental scientist and communicator. Over the past 10 years she has made a lasting contribution to the work of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) work by championing gender equality and the ocean.

Dr. Erika Woolsey is a marine biologist, designer, VR filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer, Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and CEO and co-founder of The Hydrous, a non-profit devoted to translating marine science into public understanding.

An avid sailor, diver and National Geographic Explorer, Dr. Grace Young is passionate about developing technologies to help better understand, explore and manage the ocean. After completing her PhD at the University of Oxford as a Marshal Scholar, she joined X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory, and later MIT, CERN, and NASA to develop innovative technologies for ocean restoration and sustainability.

Known as the "Mother of Sharks", Melissa Cristina Marquez is the marine biologist everyone is talking about! Melissa's research and outreach efforts have been featured in various media outlets, like the BBC's 100 Women Tribute, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Popular Science, BBC Wildlife Magazine, various book, and more!

Josheena is a third year doctoral candidate at Stanford University, and her focal area is in the Western Indian Ocean, where she is exploring innovative ways of sustainably managing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Republic of Mauritius, her home country. Josheena hopes to use her research on MPAs to further understanding of the complexities of local environmental stewardship efforts and environmental identity in a post-colonial context.