Commissioner Nicole Wilson is a licensed attorney who works in the public interest and has helped individuals and non-profit environmental organizations navigate local, state, and federal laws. Ms. Wilson believes that everyone has equal rights under the law and is committed to working on behalf of the underserved members of our community.

Ms. Wilson was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and moved to Central Florida over 20 years ago. Ms. Wilson received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and human services from Mercer University and a law degree from Barry University School of Law. Her legal studies included a concentration on environmental and earth law, and she gained practice experience in Barry Law’s Environmental and Earth Law Clinic and Advanced Clinic. She went on to be named Associate Editor of the Environmental and Earth Law Journal and was awarded an Honors Certificate in Environmental and Earth Law.

Clayton Louis Ferrara is the Executive Director of the United Nations Accredited NGO, IDEAS For Us. He is a classically trained biologist and world traveler who has conducted research on five continents concerning evolution, conservation, and ecology. His work as leader of IDEAS focuses on advancing sustainability by creating solutions that help people, heal the planet, and grow prosperity in communities around the world. He serves on the boards of numerous environmental and humanitarian nonprofits. He belongs to many societies (some secret) that bring him to interact with world leaders such as Pope Francis and the descendants of Charles Darwin.

In his early 20’s he compiled the most extensive collection of specimens in West Orange County, Florida, to build a natural history museum full of pinned insects, articulated skeletons, pressed plants, displays, trail signs, and interactive educational programs on the 128-acre site. By his early 30’s, he successfully helped launch 30+ nonprofit organizations as the Chief Executive Officer of Protégé Nonprofit Solutions.

Today, Mr. Ferrara is a handpicked member of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer’s GreenWorks task force, a member of the Development Advisory Board for Orange County Florida, a member of the Central Florida Advisory Board to Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, and a frequent lecturer at the world’s most respected academic institutions, United Nations, World Bank, and IMF events. He was born in Chile and currently lives in Winter Park, Florida. He loves turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.

Margaret R. Stewart, Esq., MPA., LL.M. serves as the Director at the Center for Earth Jurisprudence (CEJ). The Center for Earth Jurisprudence is an initiative of Barry University. Ms. Stewart oversees CEJ’s programs and operations and has created educational forums throughout the United States and abroad. She also serves as the key Advisor to three law students that work with CEJ as Earth Law & Policy Fellows. Ms. Stewart serves on the Executive Committee and formerly chaired the Legal Committee of the Florida Springs Council. She is on the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, a network of organizations and individuals committed to the universal adoption and implementation of legal systems that recognize, respect, and enforce “Rights of Nature” and to making the idea of Rights of Nature an idea whose time has come.

Ms. Stewart earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, her Masters in Non-Profit & Human Resources Management from Penn State University, her Juris Doctor from Barry University School of Law, and her LL.M. from Western New England School of Law. While in law school, Ms. Stewart earned her Environmental Law Honors Certificate and worked two semesters in the Environmental and Earth Law Clinic. She now lectures on Earth Jurisprudence and Earth Law at Barry and around the world.

Ms. Stewart enjoys traveling and exploring new destinations. Originating from an urban jungle like Philadelphia, Ms. Stewart has delighted in the natural treasures of Florida and is devoted to protecting them for future generations. Her belief in the intrinsic rights of all members of the Earth community was deepened when she met Thomas Berry as a teenager, and she remains a staunch advocate for the legal recognition of those rights.

Professor James Bacchus is Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity of the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice Chairman – the chief judge of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body. He is a former Member of the Congress of the United States, from Florida, and a former U.S. trade negotiator. He serves on the United States Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, served on the High-Level Advisory Panel to the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, chaired the global council on governance for the sustainability of the World Economic Forum, and chaired the Commission on Trade and Investment Policy of the International Chamber of Commerce.

He is an Adjunct Scholar for the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, a global fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada, and Pao Yue-Kong University Chair Professor of international law at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Professor Bacchus is the author of Trade and Freedom (London: Cameron May, 2004); The Willing World: Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity (London: Cambridge University Press, 2018), named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by the Financial Times of London; and, with co-author Inu Manak, The Development Dimension: Special and Differential Treatment in Trade (London: Routledge Press, 2021). He writes, speaks, and works worldwide on numerous issues relating to trade, investment, climate change, and the other dimensions of sustainable development.

Brittany Sellers has worked in the City of Orlando's Green Works Office of Sustainability and Resilience for the last 5 years. In her role as Assistant Director, she focuses on the development and implementation of policies and programs related to clean energy, green buildings, water, and transportation. She completed her bachelor's degree in psychology at Flagler College and earned her master's and Ph.D. in human factors psychology from the University of Central Florida, where her research focused on influencing sustainable behaviors through a combined approach of motivation and design.