Christopher is an economist by training and economic development manager, small business developer and sustainability performance consultant by profession. His "firsts" include facilitating the first major city in the US to adopt sustainable development in its economic development strategy as Economic Policy Manager for the City of Portland, OR (1994); first US implementation of a sustainability-integrated environmental management system (1998) and first comprehensive corporate life-cycle sustainability performance assessment (Cliff Bar & Co., 2006).  For the past ten years he has served Rocky Mountain Institute, the Catamount Institute and Natural Capitalism Solutions as a sustainability consultant and speaker, and served his alma mater The Colorado College as a visiting professor of sustainable development. Since 2002 he has served on the sustainability implementation team of Fort Carson Mountain Post, a US Army installation of more than 25,000 Soldiers and civilians that is a leader for the Department of Defence in integration of sustainability into its management systems. Christopher is one of the co-founders of CORE, and served 8 years on the Board of the organization. He also serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Asia-Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production.

Jamila has worked for several years in Colorado's nonprofit conservation and environmental communities. She specializes in communications, media, community engagement, and membership development.  Prior to her nonprofit work, Jamila worked for the Colorado State Legislature as research staff for the House Committee on Transportation and Energy, and in Washington D.C. as a government relations professional for research and higher education institutions.  She holds an M.A. in Applied Political Science from the American University in Washington, D.C., a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is completing a Graduate Certificate in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Denver.