Riikka works as an Associate Professor in the University of Helsinki, Faculties of Educational Sciences and Theology. Her recent research has focused on childhood and youth, multispecies relations and the affective and ontological aspects of environmental crises. She has developed feminist and narrative multispecies methodologies and written on the possibilities for post-anthropocentric education. She leads the Kone Foundation funded research project Children of the Anthropocene as well as the Finnish Research Council funded project Figurations of the child and more than human politics of childhood for the post-Anthropocene: The fossil, the microbe, the weather (MoreChild).

Akseli Manner is a Helsinki-based graphic designer and web developer. He is interested in the eclectic combination of UI and typographic components across different media, as well as in challenging digital usage habits. His portfolio includes websites, event identities, and posters.

Varpu Mehto (PhD) is a researcher and textile crafter focused on childhood and education through a more-than-human lens. Her current project explores the epistemics, materialities, and temporalities of urban multispecies cohabiting, particularly around Barnacle goose nesting cultures. Previously, she has explored the material aspects of classrooms and particularities of crafts as a way of knowing. Varpu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki.

Minna Saarela holds a Master of Education Degree in Early Childhood Education. She is interested in topics related to growth, education and naturecultures. In her master's thesis, she examined cuteness as a multidisciplinary phenomenon. She is currently conducting doctoral research at the University of Helsinki on the multispecies relationships between children and plants.

Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas is a postdoctoral researcher in the Children of the Anthropocene- Atmospheres project at the University of Helsinki. Her research explores how art, sensory methods, and nonhuman encounters might help us rethink empathy beyond the human. Before moving to Finland, she worked as a K-12 art teacher and a museum educator in the U.S. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences from the University of Helsinki. She is currently developing new research on empathy in science communication, particularly within multispecies and citizen science context.

Verneri Valasmo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Children of the Anthropocene – Atmospheres project at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on multispecies co-living in urban areas and the entanglements among youth and mobile technologies. He applies multispecies ethnography and actor-network theory to explore how humans, other species, and technologies come together in the everyday life of cities and educational institutions.

Henrika Ylirisku (Doctor of Arts) is a researcher, artist, and art pedagogue exploring multispecies entanglements and posthuman art pedagogies. Her work sits at the intersection of environmental art education, multispecies studies, and feminist posthumanities. Combining drawing, place-responsiveness, and speculative, movement-based experimentation, she challenges anthropocentric habits of perception and opens up possibilities for learning-with the more-than-human. She currently works as University Lecturer in Art Education at Aalto University and is member of the Children of the Anthropocene research group.