Ken has worked in the environmental movement for over three decades, first volunteering for his Calgary high school environmental club in 1990. He was the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Ancient Forest Alliance between 2010 to 2018, and served as the Executive Director and Campaign Director of the Wilderness Committee in Victoria between 1999 to 2010. He graduated from the ecology and evolutionary biology department at the University of British Columbia and previously worked as a biologist, tree-planter, and math tutor. 

Celina has worked with numerous non-profits and at various levels of government. Her deep love for the natural world led her to focus her career on building strategic relationships beyond traditional environmentalists to influence conservation on a national scale.