Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Card. Michael Czerny, S.J. serves as Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. From 2016 to 2021 he was Under-Secretary for the Migration and Refugee Section of the same Dicastery. Previously, he held numerous leadership positions in the Jesuits, including heading the Social Justice Secretariat at the Jesuit General Curia and founding the African Jesuit AIDS Network.
Director of Science and Research, NOAA Fisheries
Dr. Robert Foy has been the Director of Science and Research in the Alaska Region for NOAA Fisheries since 2018. In this capacity he oversees the Alaska Fisheries Science Center mission to support stewardship of living marine resources and their habitats in the nearly 1.5 million square miles of coastal oceans in federal waters around Alaska. He joined NOAA Fisheries in 2007 as the Director of the Center's Kodiak Laboratory and Program Manager for the Shellfish Assessment Program. For 11 years, he led the program responsible for assessment, biological research, and ecological research of commercial crab species in Alaska. Dr. Foy earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Michigan, a Master in Science in Fisheries and Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Alaska. He has spent over 25 years conducting Alaskan marine biological and ecological research and 15 years working on Alaskan stock assessment and supporting ecosystem based fishery management. He has participated in and led numerous climate-focused studies in the Subarctic and Arctic in cooperation with state and federal agencies, coastal communities, and commercial industries.
Lummi Nation Elder
Jeremiah “Jay” Julius (W’tot Lhem), is a father, fisher, Founder and President of Se’Si’Le, Board Member of Stand.earth, and served on the governing body of the Lummi Nation for which he also served as Chairman. He has organized and executed Tribal and intertribal, local, regional, national and international campaigns. A bridge-builder, he uses empathy and storytelling, including Se'Si'Le's evolving XR/VR platforms, to bring people together and share right and respectful ways of being-in-relation-with nature. Jay believes in honoring the past and his Nation’s treaty rights and inherent rights. He takes an uncompromising position to protect their treaty rights, their sacred landscapes and seascapes, the environment, and the way of life (Schelangen) of his people. He shares his passion for fishing and his commitment to the Salish Sea through his seafood market, where he has two seafood operations in the heart of his people’s original territory in the Salish Sea on San Juan Island. These markets provide not only an income, but a way to enriching the public’s understanding of Xw’ullemy (the Salish Sea) and the lifeways and ancient fishing heritage of his people.