Yael Wyner and Rob DeSalle live and work in New York City. Yael Wyner is Associate Professor of Teaching & Learning and of Biology at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York. Rob DeSalle is Curator at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Professor of Comparative Biology in the AMNH Richard Gilder Graduate School. Yael Wyner's research interest center on how students connect human action and their own daily lives to the living world. She has developed curriculum for student learning of environmental science, ecology, biodiversity and evolution. Her prior work focused on lemur conservation biology. Rob DeSalle's research interests center on taxonomy, systematics and biodiversity of organisms from microbes to whales.