Jose Flores and Cindy Montanez

Jose Flores is a Civics and U.S. history teacher at Brawley Union High School located in Brawley, California. He was honored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Council on Environmental Quality with a 2015–2016 Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators.

Cindy Montañez is the CEO of TreePeople, an environmental nonprofit organization that has worked with over 1 million students over the past 40 years to provide environmental literacy training. She previously served as a member of the California Assembly and is currently a Board Member for the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and a Legislator In-Residence at the USC Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.