Scott Wallace is the author of the best-selling book, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes (Crown, 2011), and a longtime contributor to National Geographic. Wallace covered the armed conflicts in Central America throughout the 1980s for CBS News, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Independent, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, . His articles have also appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Interview, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among many others. His photographs have been published in Details, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications via Getty Images and the World Bank Photo Collection. His broadcast credits include CBS, CNN, and National Geographic Channel. He has been honored with the Explorers Club’s Lowell Thomas Award for excellence in reporting from the field, and he has won awards from the Associated Press, Gannett Newspapers, Inter-American Press Association, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists. , and Society of American Travel Writers. He is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut.
Christopher J. Dodd represented the state of Connecticut first as a member of the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981 and then as a U.S. Senator from 1981 to 2011, during which time he was Chair of the Banking Committee (2007–2011), Chair of the Senate Health Committee (2009), and Chair of the Senate Rules Committee (2001–2003). From 2011 to 2017 he was CEO of the Motion Picture Association, and in 2018 he returned to the practice of law. Chris Dodd is Special Presidential Advisor on the Americas to President Joseph R. Biden.