We are excited to host keynote speaker Peter Brannen, an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Wired, Aeon, The Boston Globe, Slate, and The Guardian among other publications. His book, The Ends of the World, about the five major mass extinctions in Earth's history, was published in 2017 by Ecco and was a Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book.