Part of the Cleveland Natural History Museum’s Conservation Symposium (“Reconnecting with Nature: A Prescription for Better Health”), I’m pleased to be on this panel. Matt Stansberry, author of Rust Belt Arcana, is moderating.

• Lisa Rainsong is faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and integrates composition, education, and vocal performance with natural history.

• Gavin Van Horn is Director of Cultures and Conservation for the Center for Humans and Nature and author of The Way of the Coyote and lives in Chicago.

• Trebbe Johnson is founder and executive director of Radical Joy for Hard Times, a worldwide community of people dedicated to bringing meaning, beauty, and value to places that have been damaged by human or natural acts. And she is the author of a book by the same name, and lives in Eastern PA.

• Mark Schlack is a Boston-area journalist who has covered science and technology for more than 30 years. He’s been following climate science, advanced physics, evolutionary biology and the chaos of American politics, all of which play a role in his incredible science fiction debut, Replay Earth.