Philip Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. He earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale in 1994 and is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Wes Larson is a wildlife biologist who specializes in bears and has been working with polar, black, and grizzly bears since 2011. His research and outreach projects have taken him all over the world to work with endangered species, and his work has been featured in scientific publications as well as media such as National Geographic, CNN, and Al Jazeera. He hosts the extremely popular podcast, Tooth and Claw, documenting the stories of the most extreme animal attacks ever experienced.

Dr. Cheryl Corbin received her B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley completing a double major in African American Studies and Media Studies. She completed her doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. She current serves as an Assistant Professor at Portland University. In 2012, she published a paper: “Deconstructing Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory: Race, Labor, and the Changing Depictions of the Oompa-Loompas”.

John Ninness is the principal of the Australian-based consultancy company Safety Sure. John is a safety professional with more than 30 years experience across a wide range of industries, including mining and energy, manufacturing, defense, and retail and food processing.

After passing SAS selection, bestselling author and speaker, Dr. Dan Pronk, served most of his military career within special operations units, including four tours of Afghanistan and over 100 combat missions. Dan was awarded the commendation for distinguished service for his conduct in action on his second tour of Afghanistan. He’s written two best-selling books, The Combat Doctor , The Resilience Shield and Average 70KG D**khead.

Gary Bryant is a professor of physics at RMIT University. Gary's research is in three complimentary fields. The biophysics of damage to biological tissue during dehydration and freezing. The application of scattering techniques, problems in biological physics and nanotechnology, including characterization of nanoparticles. and bio and macro molecules in solution, and understanding of the fundamental processes of crystallization and glass formation in colloidal suspensions.

Andrew Vietze is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than two dozen titles. He has been a distinguished lecturer at universities, national conferences, and given talks at countless libraries, historical societies and schools. Andrew lives off-grid in the woods of Waldo County and spends six months of the year as a seasonal ranger in forever wild Baxter State Park, Maine.

Hal is an author, fellow podcaster, and president of Big Woods Bucks, A lifelong game hunter, Hal has spent the last 20 years working to revive and promote hunting in its most ancient and purest form among the Big Woods of Maine.

Ralph Moffat joined Glasgow Museums in 2008 as Curator of European Arms & Armour and is responsible for the care, study, and dissemination of knowledge of Glasgow Museums' internationally-renowned collection of arms and armour as well as the many combat and weapons-related books and manuscripts in the R. L. Scott Library.

Callum Watson is the Battle Coordinator at Bannockburn Visitor Centre, and the former Steward at Blackness Castle, a 15th century fort on the shores of the Firth of Forth right in the middle of William Wallace country and a location much used in period movies from Outlander to our very own Mel Gibson’s 1990 version of Hamlet. Callum graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD thesis entitled 'Attitudes Towards Chivalry in Barbour's Bruce and Harry's Wallace', looking in detail at knighthood in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Scotland.

A Canadian-born American engineer and former NASA astronaut, who has been to space twice. In 2008, he spent time on the International Space Station; and in 2011, travelled as part of the final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Vincent Jello Aiello spent nearly 25 years in service flying mainly the F-18 Hornet and Super Hornet but also the F-16 Fighting Falcon during an adversary tour. He accrued over 3,800 flight miles and 705 carrier landings having served as a Top Gun instructor and Air Wing and now flies for a major airline as well as hosting the extremely popular Fighter Pilot Podcast.

As a career Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot, Guy led combat missions in support of forces on the ground in the Middle East. Subsequently selected as a TOPGUN Instructor, he served as the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps expert in air-to-air combat and tactics development. His last tour of duty took him into the halls of the Pentagon where he served as communications director and chief speechwriter to Secretary of Defence James Mattis. He is the author of two books, Top Gun’s Top 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit and Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s White House with General Mattis.

Jared Kirby is a classical and historical fencing master who has choreographed combat for the stage and screen for nearly 30 years. Based in New York City, he has run workshops all over the world and has been featured in the New York Times, Backstage, Vulture, MentalFloss, InsideHook, NJ Magazine, and Dance Magazine.

Amy Bennett-Zendzian has been an instructor and writing consultant at Boston University since 2009 and at other colleges in the Boston area since 2004. In 2021 she received the CAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching. In addition to writing pedagogy, her main areas of interest as writer, reader, and researcher are fairy tales, speculative fiction, and young adult literature. She is a published poet as well as a voice actor, director and playwright whose works have been produced around the Boston area.

David Stone Potter is the Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin in Ancient History at The University of Michigan. He specializes in Greek and Roman Asia Minor, Greek, and Latin historiography and epigraphy, Roman public entertainment, and the study of ancient warfare.

Dr Jane Draycott is a Lecturer in Ancient History and the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Ancient Science and Technology at the University of Glasgow. She is a published author, with titles including Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen.

Ken Widner grew up hearing stories about his famous uncles, Clarence and John Anglin, from his mother and family. He has taken part in several documentaries about their escape from Alcatraz, including The History Channel documentary, Alcatraz: Search for the Truth, and Expedition Unknown on the Discovery Channel. He is currently collaborating with Mike Lynch on a new book, Alcatraz: The Last Escape, which will be published in May 2024.

Mike Lynch is an award-winning author whose historical non-fiction book, Dublin, came out in 2007, followed by eight novels, including the historical fiction book, After the Cross. he is currently collaborating with Ken Widner on Alcatraz: The Last Escape, which will be published in May 2024.

Dr. Phil Currie is an internationally renowned palaeontologist whose scientific accomplishments have led to a greater understanding of dinosaurs and their historic significance. He was instrumental in the development of Alberta’s Royal Tyrell Map Museum and has made major contributions to palaeontology on both the Canadian and the world stage through his extensive field work, academic research, writing and teaching.

ReBecca Hunt-Foster is the Monument Paleontologist/Museum Curator at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. Her current research includes Early Cretaceous ornithomimosaurs from North America, the Upper Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation paleofauna of western Colorado and eastern Utah and the ichnofauna of the lower-middle Jurassic rocks of eastern Utah.

Anne Goodenough is a Reader in Applied Ecology at the University of Gloucestershire. Although an active researcher on many ecological topics and taxa, her first love is bird research, especially avian breeding ecology and responses to climate change. Anne is very interested in using long-term datasets to study changes in population, fecundity, and behaviour.

Peter McCarthy is the owner of Pest IT, and has enjoyed over 30 years of involvement in training, distribution, consulting and support to the Australian pest management industry. Peter’s primary focus is on developing the bird management market and he has introduced several new technologies since the early 1990’s. He has assisted countless companies in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific with bird management installation training.

Tara C. Smith is a consulting expert at the Zombie Research Society, and a Professor of Epidemiology at the Kent State University College of Public Health. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, her research focuses on zoonotic infections and emerging diseases, particularly those which originate in animals.

Cameron Carlson is a consulting expert at the Zombie Research Society, and an active duty officer in the United States Navy. He has conducted counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, researched disaster relief effectiveness around the world, and is an expert in outdoor survival. Cameron currently lives in Monterey, California while attending the Naval Postgraduate School.

Alisha Beavis and Jess Nicholas, hosts of the Two Humerus Nurses podcast, have a combined 20+ years’ experience in the nursing industry. Alisha graduated from LaTrobe University and has worked in peri-anaesthesia, paediatrics, education, acute medical and surgical, emergency and urgent care; while Jess, also a graduate of LaTrobe, has worked in aged care, acute medical, surgical and urgent care.

Dr. William Taylor is the Assistant Professor, Curator of Archaelogy at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on the relationship between humans and animals, with a topical focus on horses and animal domestication, and a technical emphasis on archaeozoology, glacial archaeology, archaeological science, and emerging technologies.

Dr Isaac Alfred Hart is a Professor at the University of Utah, and uses methods from paleobiogeography and paleoecology to understand human decision making in the past, combining analysis of past plant and animal communities with archaeological research regarding human subsistence practices.

As station leader at the Davis Research Station in Antarctica, ex-ADF officer David Knoff was leading 24 expeditioners in a standard mission when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, international travel came to a standstill and their ride home was cancelled - indefinitely. What was supposed to be a routine mission became a high-pressure cauldron of uncertainty and anxiety where everyone was pushed to their mental limits. David’s book about his experience, 537 Days of Winter, was published in 2022.

In June of 2022, Michael J. Robinson was elected unopposed as Mayor of Burkittville, Maryland - the town that stood in for Blair in ‘The Blair Witch Project’.

Malcolm Gaskill  is an English academic historian and writer on crime, magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, and the supernatural. Gaskill was a professor in the history department of the University of East Anglia from 2011 until 2020, when he retired from teaching to give more time to writing. His latest book is titled The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World.

Fiona Horne is one of the world’s most respected Witches. She is the author of seventeen best-selling books on Modern Witchcraft, published internationally over the last two decades, all aimed at dispelling negative myths and stereotypes to contribute to the freedom of Modern Witches to practice their Craft today. She is also a TV and radio personality, a commercial pilot, an accomplished free diver and the lead singer of 90s sensation, DefFX.

David McManus is the head journalist at DPS Publishing, whose mastheads, including Aged Care Guide, Disability Support Group, and Your Retirement Living are read by thousands of Australians.

Troy Bradley is a ballooning legend, and member of the U.S. Ballooning Hall of Fame. Receiving his private pilot license at age 16, he has racked up over 7,732 balloon piloting hours (that’s the equivalent of 322 days) and set 64 World Records in Hot Air, Gas and Rozier (hybrid) balloons. Troy has flown 235 different balloons on 5 continents across 16 countries and is the only three-time-recipient of the highest international award in ballooning: The Federation Aeronautique International’s Montgolfier Diploma.

Paranormal investigator Dolly Adamson runs Kyneton Paranormal in the historic Victorian country town of Kyneton. She works with and in historical venues that are thought to be haunted. Working with psychics and mediums, she has investigated multiple historical sites around Victoria in South East Australia, from pubs to mansions to RSL’s.

Sharon A. Hill is an American science writer and speaker known for her research into the interaction between science and the public and specifically how science is used - or abused - in areas including the paranormal, pseudoscience, and media reports of strange natural phenomena. She has been writing on her own blog since 2006 and ran the skeptical weird news site and podcast Doubtful News for several years. She has also written for the Fortean Times, the Huffington Post, the Skeptical Inquirer and, wrote the Sounds Sciencey column for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. She published her first book, Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers, in 2017.

Dr Yannis Papastamatiou is an Assistant Professor at Florida International University where his lab researches the physiological and behavioural ecology of sharks and other predators. His shark research has taken him all over the world including Japan, Mexico, Bahamas, Pacific Islands, Alaska, and Belize resulting in nearly 60 publications in the scientific literature.

Tim Kano has played Leo Tanaka in Neighbours for over five years. He was also a Cosmopolitan Bachelor of the Year nominee in 2018. He is originally from New Zealand, and most recently starred in the 2021 action thriller, Great White, as Jojo Binase, one of a group of passengers whose seaplane sinks in the Pacific and leaves them at the mercy of a terrifying Great White Shark.