Olivia N. Davis is a postdoctoral research scholar at Arizona State University working with Dr. Katey Cooper and the Cooper Biology Education Research lab. Her current research, funded through NSF, focuses on mental health interventions for STEM graduate students, which has included co-founding the International Science Postgraduate Mental Health Alliance, as well as developing the Fail-Safe Science video repository and companion podcast. Olivia also completed their PhD at Arizona State University in 2024, working with the Conservation Innovation Lab and Dr. Leah Gerber. Here, she focused on endangered species recovery planning, and wrote her dissertation through a combination of narrative and academic writing. Olivia still continues conservation work to this day alongside their work in mental health, and also hopes to further pursue writing through poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction projects. Risa Aria Schnebly is a science communicator, creative writer, and interdisciplinary research completing their PhD at Arizona State University. For their dissertation, Schnebly is using social science and arts-based methods to investigate wildlife conservationists’ experiences of ecological grief and create spaces where it can be publicly shared. They also do philosophical research interrogating the social and scientific meaning of “extinction” as a concept. Schnebly also runs scientific story-slam events, co-hosts the SciChronicles podcast, and worked as a science reporter in a local newsroom in 2025 through the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship.