Andy is a Missoula‑based skateboarder, photographer, and founding member of the Montana Skatepark Association, which began as a grassroots effort in 2000 and grew into a statewide model for building skateparks in rural and underserved Montana communities. He is the co‑author and photographer of Grit to Grind: Shaping Montana Communities One Skatepark at a Time, documenting how local organizing, creativity, and persistence helped create a lasting skatepark network across the state.

Greg Rec is an award‑winning photojournalist and longtime staff photographer at the Portland Press Herald. As a University of Montana journalism student in 1996, Rec was part of the small group that captured the first photographs of Ted Kaczynski following his arrest, images that quickly circulated worldwide and remain a landmark moment in modern photojournalism.

Derek grew up on a farm near Bozeman, MT learning photography through 4-H and photographing livestock and equestrian events before formal studies at Montana State University. A farm exchange experience to Australia led to exploring a career in photojournalism at the University of Montana.

After newspaper internships in Wisconsin, Michigan and Massachusetts, Derek immersed himself in the community of Butte, Montana with The Montana Standard. After seven years of visual exploration and several photojournalism awards along the way, Derek headed to upstate New York to be Chief Photographer at The Post-Star in Glens Falls, NY. For ten years, Derek integrated visual storytelling into the newspaper culture and coached photographer teams into top award winners in the state.

As newspapers began to fade, Derek reinvented himself through his agricultural roots into work with the USDA Farm Service Agency delivering U.S. Farm Bill programs supporting local agriculture. Currently in Southwest Virginia, Derek is a County Executive Director guiding small teams again, but this time to provide price-support, loan and disaster-relief programs to family farms. He still uses a camera, capturing crop losses, disasters, and the occasional Appalachian pastoral scene.

Steven Adams is a documentary photographer based in Pittsburgh. He spent most of his career as an award-winning photojournalist at newspapers in Indiana, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

After studying communications and art at The University of New York at Albany in the 1980s, he explored advertising and marketing photography in Boston before moving to Alaska to document wildlife and landscapes. He found his niche in photojournalism while pursuing graduate studies at the University of Montana.

Steven joined the visual team at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in 1999, where he spent two decades photographing everything from Steelers Super Bowl celebrations to the war in Iraq.

He currently lives in the city’s historic Mexican War Streets neighborhood, and works as a freelance photographer and visual communications consultant.

Rio is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at ALPS. In her role she works to build flourishing relationships with legal associations across the United States, and works passionately to educate lawyers on the importance of using technology and data to build better practices and drive the legal community forward.

Chris is Chief Operating Officer of ALPS Corporation and ALPS Property & Casualty Insurance Company, and has held high-level leadership positions in ALPS since 2007. Chris oversees ALPS operations, business development teams, sales strategy and served as ALPS’ chief liaison into the bar community until 2023. He speaks regularly before bar leaders nationally and regionally on subject such as legal trends, best practices in strategic planning, mandatory malpractice insurance and disclosure concepts as well as well-being in law topics.