Tero is a passionate defender of traditional worldview and cosmology of his people, and head of Selkie village in North Karelia, Finland. He has contributed to the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment and IPCC. He works for the award-winning Snowchange Cooperative, with the communities of Eastern Sámi, Chukchi, Yukaghir, Sakha, Evenk, Even, Inuit, Inuvialuit, Gwitchin and many more. He is a winter seiner and has won several human rights and environmental awards for the work with Snowchange and indigenous peoples of the Arctic. He is also an adopted full status member of the Kwakwakwala
First Nation based in British Columbia, Canada.
Kaisu is the Head of the Biodiversity work under Snowchange. She is a human geographer who has been working in Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sámi territories as well as Russian North since 2000. She specializes in gendered biodiversity knowledge. Currently she is working on the Interreg CHERISH project, Living Maps of the Skolt Sámi people and the Landscape Rewilding Programme. She lives in Selkie, Finland.