- Jackie Carrera, President and CEO of Parks and People Foundation (Baltimore, MD)
- Martin Chávez, Former Executive Director of ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA (Washington, DC)
- Aaron Durnbaugh, Deputy Commissioner for Chicago Department of Environment and Vice Chair of Chicago Wilderness (Chicago, IL)
- Mark Garvin, President of Tree Care Industry Association (Londonderry, NH)
- John Giedraitis, Texas Urban Forestry Coordinator for Texas Forest Service (College Station, TX)
- Mike Houck, Executive Director of Urban Greenspaces Institute (Portland, OR)
- Liam Kavanagh, First Deputy Commissioner for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (New York, NY)
- Larry Kotchman, State Forester for the North Dakota Forest Service (Bottineau, ND)
- Dan Lambe, Vice President of Programs for the Arbor Day Foundation (Lincoln, NE)
- Monica Lear, Deputy Associate Director of the Urban Forestry Administration in the DC Department of Transportation and the State Forester of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC)
- Andy Lipkis, President of TreePeople, Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA)
- Dean Marriott, Director of Environmental Services for the City of Portland, OR (Portland, OR)
- Gavin McMillan, Principal-in-Charge for Hargreaves Associates (Cambridge, MA)
- Greg Nickels, Board Member of Cascade Land Conservancy (Seattle, WA)
- John Norquist, President and CEO of Congress for New Urbanism (Chicago, IL)
- Mary Northridge, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Health Promotion at New York University College of Dentistry (New York, NY)
- Stephanie Pincetl, Adjunct Professor at UCLA Institute of the Environment (Los Angeles, CA)
- Pat Pineda, Group Vice President of Toyota North America, Inc., National Philanthropy and the Toyota USA Foundation (New York, NY)
- Shannon Ramsay, Founding President and CEO of Trees Forever (Marion, IA)
- Scott Robson, Executive Director of Evergreen Park & Recreation District (Evergreen, CO)
- Maitreyi Roy, Vice President for Programs at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (Philadelphia, PA)
- Stephen Shurtz, Urban Forestry and Landscape Manager for the City of Baton Rouge, LA, Department of Public Works (Rouge, LA)
- Philip Silva, Co-Director of treeKIT, a project of the Open Space Institute (Brooklyn, NY)
- James Skiera, Executive Director of International Society of Arboriculture (Champaign, IL)
- Ray Tretheway, Executive Director of Sacramento Tree Foundation (Sacramento, CA)

