Laura Paskus is an environmental journalist and a correspondent whose work has been widely published. She is the producer of New Mexico In Focus's series "Our Land: New Mexico's Environmental Past, Present, and Future."
Adrian Oglesby, JD, is an attorney and New Mexico water law and water management expert. He has been the managing editor of the U.S.-Mexico Law Journal, the president of the New Mexico Riparian Council, and a member of the board of directors of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and presently serves as director of the Utton Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico.
Former US Senator Fred Harris is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of New Mexico as well a director emeritus of the UNM Fred Harris Congressional Internship Program. He has produced twenty nonfiction books on public policy, politics, and government, including the coedited Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, as well as three novels.