Phil Rigdon is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and has served as the Superintendent of their Department of Natural Resources since 2005. In this role, he leads the stewardship of the tribe’s 1.3-million-acre reservation and ceded ancestral lands, overseeing forestry, wildfire management, and salmon restoration. Rigdon integrates modern scientific forestry with indigenous cultural values and treaty rights. Nationally, he serves as Vice President of the Intertribal Timber Council and represents the tribe on major regional water and environmental boards, advocating for tribal resource sovereignty and landscape-scale ecological resilience.

Robert Franklin is a public and academic historian who focuses on 20th Century US and World History broadly, the history of the Hanford Site specifically, with an additional background in archival science, historic preservation, and historic interpretation. Since 2015 he has served as the archivist and historian for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Collection, an artifact and archive collection preserving the history of plutonium production at the Hanford Site and managed by Washington State University Tri-Cities. Robert has co-authored and co-edited two books in the Hanford Histories series for WSU Press. He is a former historical tour guide of the Hanford Site and a past president and current vice president of the B Reactor Museum Association, a non-profit organization that supports the operation and interpretation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Robert’s current research projects include creating digital assets for the Manhattan Project National Historical Park and producing a series of podcasts highlighting undertold narratives of the Manhattan Project at Hanford. Robert is currently pursuing a PhD in History at Washington State University.

Dr. Robert Bass is the President and Board Member of the Friends of Badger Mountain whose mission is the preservation and stewardship of our local the ridges for the benefit of the community and the environment. Dr. Bass was a Project Manager in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s National Security Directorate. He retired in 2015. He earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1977. He has over 30 years’ experience in program, project, and personnel management serving as a Director of Information Services for Lockheed Martin Hanford Co., as a manager for Boeing Computer Services, Richland, and as president of Realogic, Inc., a consultancy and software development company in Sacramento, CA.