Keith Anthony Fabro is a Palawan-based freelance environmental journalist. He specifically covers indigenous peoples and local communities, women, cultural heritage, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions. His bylines can be found in Rappler, Mongabay, Eco-Business and China Dialogue.

Jee Y. Geronimo is part of Rappler’s Central Desk and has been working on environmental stories for the news organization since 2016. Before covering the environment beat, she also covered health and education issues as a multimedia reporter. She currently hosts The Green Report, Rappler’s environmental podcast.

Germelina Lacorte currently works as desk editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and is writing and editing stories from Mindanao. She finished her Master of Arts in Journalism under the Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) fellowship at the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU).

Ivy Marie Mangadlao is a Caraga-based freelance writer and photojournalist covering climate change related disasters, travel and tourism, biodiversity, and human interest stories. She is also the Associate Editor of Mindanao Varsitarian, the official student publication of Mindanao State University- Main Campus in Marawi.

Erwin Mascariñas is a freelance photojournalist and writer based in North Eastern Mindanao. He is covering wildlife conservation, climate change related disasters, resource conflicts, biodiversity, agriculture, and other environment-related issues.

Barry Ohaylan has been a freelance videographer and a photo contributor for the Philippine Daily Inquirer since 2015. His stint in photojournalism began at the online media outlet Davao Today, where he stayed for six years, and continues up to the present, when unexpected assignments take him to unexpected places. He is a BS Commerce graduate at the University of Mindanao and married to wife Jetty with whom he has two children Vladimir Kara, 18; and Aleister Kynu, 14.

Ronalyn V. Olea is the managing editor of Bulatlat, the longest-running online media outfit in the Philippines and the authority in human rights reporting in the Philippines. She is now the secretary general of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).

Bong S. Sarmiento is writer / editor at MindaNews, an online news outfit based in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. His field of interests include reporting about the environment, war and peace, business, human rights, travel and culture.

Carl Taawan is a journalist, documentary photographer, and visual artist. Other than searching for newsworthy stories that he’s been doing since 2007 as a photojournalist, he is also into the promotion of arts, cooperativism as well as the preservation of cultural heritage. He is a member of the board of the Baguio Arts and Crafts Collective, Inc. (BACCI) and co-founder of the Pasa-Kalye Group of Artists.