Meet the Creative Team
Lori McDonald, Game Designer
Lori McDonald, co-owner of Turn 4 Turn Llc, a small design studio in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, designed Earth Matters. A founder of Soldier Hollow Charter School, a former art teacher and aspiring poet, she loves mountain sports and working with kids.
“I fell in love with the wild world at a young age and have had the privilege of climbing mountains and skiing powder snow. These experiences in wild places are my lifeline.
With so many global problems calling for action, Earth Matters and my work in education are my humble attempts at paying my dues. Being a consumer has never meshed with my values. Everything is connected. I appreciate the chance to contribute to the conversation with the belief that we work to protect what we value”.
Rohan & Yuliia, Illustrators
Rohan Dahotre is an illustrator based in Pune, India. He is a nature and wildlife enthusiast, a keen observer who loves exploring the wilderness. He loves illustrating animals, birds, and all things wild, contributing to the cause of wildlife awareness, conservation, and welfare.
"Nature has always inspired me. But when it specifically comes to wildlife, that is what I like the most. There is so much variety, different characteristics, behavior, shapes, forms, patterns, and textures. In all, there is so much to observe and learn."
His artistic style is versatile, experimental, colorful, and playful. He is deeply committed to raising awareness which appears throughout his body of work. These themes are in his art practice and for clients he worked for, such as BBC, WWF, Google, Starbucks, and others. Along with a few forest departments, editorial magazines, and publishing houses.
Yuliia Bahniuk is a freelance illustrator and eco enthusiast from Ukraine living in India. At one stage of her illustrator career, she realized that she wanted her art to be useful, so that's how she decided to spread awareness about the environment through illustration so that more and more people will become aware of the problems our planet faces and solutions to them, to show the beauty that lies in nature through art, the importance of species and so on. She believes that nobody wants our planet to be destroyed; the problem is that most people don't have the knowledge which could help to understand how everything is connected in nature and how some of our everyday doings can influence the well-being of our planet.
Leslee Dillon Viehoff, COPYWRITER
Throughout her career, Leslee has given voice to natural and organic companies that care about the planet. She is passionate about the outdoors and loves playing board games. https://www.lesleedillon.com
Special Thanks To:
Rohan Dahotre, Yuliia Bahniuk, Leslee Dillon Viehoff, Ivan Alexiev - PlayerLair, Nikola Petrov, Hershel Glueck - Hero Time, Nevada Christianson, Sophie McDonald, Christina Kwauk, Jonathan Machtig, Shannon Poirier and the students at Soldier Hollow Charter School, Robin McGinn, Nikylla Celine, Daniel & Cooper of LightPress, our Kickstarter backers, and Barry Lopez (in memory) for your creative input and belief in this project.
Thanks to Our Amazing Kickstarter Backers!
Friends of Future Generations:
Ibnur Rashad, Bev Ronnow
Friends of Environmental Education:
Susan Hauser, Sophie S. Day, Katy Fox, Julie Kolischak
Friends of Climate Literacy:
Julena Vukcevic, Mark Lane
Friends of Wilderness:
Leslee Dillon Viehoff, Stephanie Goslen, Aaron Helgevold
Friends of Imagination:
Rennea Couttenye, Togu Oppusunggu, John Salazar, Laura Dunn, James Fiocco, Christine Frederick, Christopher Jent, Alyssa Newman, Ted Howell, Elizabeth Perry, Daniel Pinch, Erin Kalkwarf, Alexandra Machrone, Meredith Knott, Heather Phelps, Deepali Medhekar, Shannon Poirier, Sheila Rittenberg, Chris Kolischak, Sarah Santa Maria
Friends of Wildlife:
Andrea, Sharon Angal, Rachel Malena-Chan, Michael Jensen