Galina Hale is a Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz. She served as a Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and as an assistant professor of economics at Yale University. Galina’s current research interests focus on attracting mainstream finance to climate solutions, the sustainability of the global food system, and international financial stability, especially with respect to climate risks. Galina has published over 30 articles in leading economics and finance peer-reviewed journals. She serves on multiple editorial boards and presents her work regularly at scholarly and policy meetings worldwide.

Jacob Peacock has worked in farmed animal advocacy research for 8 years. He currently serves as a Research Advisor at Stanford University's Humane and Sustainable Food Lab and Board Member at Animal Charity Evaluators. His research has examined informational interventions to reduce meat consumption, like documentaries and classroom education; plant-based analogues to meat, milk and butter; methods for measuring changes in animal product consumption; and the impact of cage-free campaigns, among other topics. Previously, he's worked as a Research Manager at Rethink Priorities and served as Director of The Humane League Labs. He earned a B.Sc. in Computational and Integrative Biology from Rutgers University.

Joshua Tasoff is an Associate Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He conducts research in behavioral economics, experimental economics, and animal-welfare economics. He is on the Research Board of Greener by Default. He has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a S.B. from MIT.