Lauren is originally from Denver, CO where their grandfather started what would become a successful business as a landman. This business has been passed down to her parent's generation who now manage mineral rights across the Rocky Mountain region. As a queer, Ashkenazi Jew who began their activism journey while studying environmental politics in college, she firmly believes that taking accountability for her family's role in climate chaos is a way of honoring her grandfather's legacy while repairing harm and ensuring a livable future for generations to come. Lauren’s day job is in anti-oppressive healing work and she has been a long time organizer with Resource Generation.

Megan inherited shares in the Farmer’s Royalty Company in OK through her great-grandfather. He was a farmer involved in founding the Farmer’s Union Cooperative Royalty Co. in 1928 (now Farmer’s Royalty Co). She has been passionate about climate justice since her teenage years and is grappling with honoring her family’s legacy while working to repair harm and redistribute money from royalties earned from these shares. She works as a graphic designer by day and is glad to volunteer her time to the Mineral Rights Action Network!

Erin comes to this work through her other organizing work. Currently they are working on campaigns to create a peer respite (an alternative to carceral hospitalization for people in crisis) in Detroit, archive the lessons learned from abolitionist movements in Detroit, move antiracist white people towards radical action, read, write, and learn with people inside of prisons, and organize mineral rights owners for climate justice. Her grandfather bought mineral rights in Texas several years before she was born and her dad and his siblings inherited these mineral rights. Erin is curious about all the different strategies for mineral rights owners to act to get us closer to the vision of abolition!

Adam is a writer, organizer, and resource mobilizer born and raised in Newport, RI. He has worked for the last decade helping wealthy people move resources to grassroots organizing in order to win elections and transform policy, at organizations such as Resource Generation, Way to Win, and most recently Movement Voter Project. Adam's ancestors were involved in the early petroleum industry here in the U.S., and his extended family owns mineral rights in a number of locations across the United States. He is committed to taking action with other mineral rights holders and future inheritors toward climate justice and a just transition away from fossil fuels. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and children.

Rebecca lives in Minneapolis, MN where she works in the areas of financial planning and community finance. She inherited mineral rights from her grandmother who owned farmland in Kansas that included natural gas wells. Rebecca and her family care deeply about the environment and social justice. They are grappling with the questions of how to responsibly handle these mineral rights assets in light of their justice-oriented values. Rebecca appreciates connecting with other mineral rights owners grappling with similar questions.

Eliza is a Brooklyn-based artist. Her conceptual and activist work monkeywrenches exploitative and extractive systems. Her work has been exhibited at the the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Bronx Museum, Missoula Art Museum, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville TN, Thomas Erben Gallery. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and Dissent Magazine. She is currently a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. Evans inherited mineral rights in Oklahoma which became the foundation for her project, All the Way to Hell. Evans has an MFA in visual from SUNY Purchase and an PhD in economic sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a 2024 GristClimate Leader. Eliza is the creator of Landman for the Planet and All the Way to Hell among other projects.