Wilder Nicholson is a documentary filmmaker and activist based in Marshall, North Carolina, land of the Aniyuwiya, or commonly known as the Cherokee. Wilder earned a BA from Bowdoin College and began environmental storytelling in 2014 with his hometown land trust. In 2015, Wilder directed and edited Mindful Travel in Ladakh with a Thomas McKinley Grant, and in 2017 and 2018 co-produced Nature Moments–a 40 part series with the Davis Conservation Foundation and Maine Audubon. From 2016 to 2020, Wilder worked as a Conservation Media Group Fellow and produced a series of sustainability films with Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership. Wilder studied at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in 2018 and 2019, and mentors new filmmakers with a developing media cooperative, Beauty of Change Studios.