Telluride Voices

Moiz Kohari

Digital Master, Moiz Kohari

Some people graduate from college and have to take jobs waiting tables, or washing dishes, or maybe, if they’re lucky, as a clerk at a law firm or an entry level position at a big corporation. Moiz Kohari? His first job was at NASA.

PHOTO BY MATT KROLL

You Can Have It All: Erika Zavaleta

All of Zavaleta’s myriad work as a conservation scientist boils down to a single question: How to think mechanistically about a complex ecological problem and use it to figure out the intervention points.