Ryan Huling is an explorer and sustainable food systems specialist based in Sierra Madre, California. He currently serves as a senior writer at the Good Food Institute Asia Pacific. His columns have appeared in Nature, Wired, USA Today, The Nikkei, and the South China Morning Post.

Oliver Uberti is a former senior design editor for National Geographic and the coauthor of three critically acclaimed books of maps and graphics: Atlas of the Invisible, Where the Animals Go, and London: The Information Capital, each of which won the top British Cartographic Society Award for cartographic excellence. He lives in Los Angeles, California.