Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
Host, National Geographic Explorer

Rae’s specialty in large animal ecology and her recent experience as a new mother has drawn her focus to the evolving role of the female and mothers during the pandemic. She’s extremely interested in exploring the emerging mother/matriarch dynamic and how it has shifted and will adapt into the future.

Andrés Ruzo
Host, National Geographic Explorer

Andrés has realized during the pandemic that human beings as species have survived many crises, both environmental and social. He’s realized that humanity’s superpower is actually family. Andrés has tapped into this first hand by moving to Dallas to be with his family and will continue to explore that powerful family connection.

Celeste Sloman
National Geographic Photographer

Celeste is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose renowned portraiture intimately connects audiences to the emotion and nuance of the human condition. Her recent portraits of families who lost loved ones due to Covid-19, shot on an iPod in her home, were featured in a nationalgeographic.com cover profile. During the pandemic, she purchased her first home, a studio loft in Brooklyn. This experience was transformational for her as an artist. Now, with this project, she will be traveling across the country photographing families who have also changed their living situation during the pandemic to get a better understanding of the change we have collectively experienced and what the future might hold