Community Experts

Clinical Associate Professor of MarketingBaylor University

Top consumer behavior and attitudes expert specializing in multicultural media & advertising, empowered storytelling & experiential learning

Storytelling In Advertising and MarketingEmpowered Storytelling In AdvertisingThe Business of HollywoodMediaWomen & Girls As Consumers

Chief Operating OfficerFrederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Carol is a cultural destination strategist and nonprofit executive who transforms mission-driven organizations into world-class attractions.

Service CultureDestination MarketingCommunity ImpactPublic EngagementCultural Destination Strategy

Expert on hurricanes and other disturbances and their ecological impactFlorida Gulf Coast University

Edwin Everham is an expert in ecological modeling and restoration ecology.

Restoration EcologyHurricane Impacts on EcosystemsDisturbance EcologyEcological ModelingEcological Monitoring

Associate Professor of Communication StudiesVanderbilt University

Medical humanities expert who specializes in health, citizenship, LGBT/queer studies, cultural studies and rhetorical theory and criticism.

Queer HealthcareQueer vernacularLGBTQ HealthHIV PreventionHIV & AIDS

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Alison Barth's work focuses on understanding how experience transforms the properties of neurons to encode memory.

Research DesignNeural PlasticityBiophysicsNeuroscience

ProfessorLouisiana State University

Dr. Slack's is an expert on social, economic, and demographic change with a special focus on rural people and places.

Social Stratification & PovertyCommunity & EnvironmentSocial DemographyRural Sociology

Managing Director at MaRS Cleantech Fund I, L.P.MaRS Cleantech

Experienced, bare-knucked approach to cleantech, finance, policy, climate science and associated global economic opportunities and risks.

Carbon and Climate Science: Industrial Endgame?CleantechClimate ChangeClean EnergyEconomics

Department Chair and Professor in College of Allied Health SciencesAugusta University

Dr. Behr is the program director of AU’s nationally recognized medical illustration program.

Medical IllustrationVisuals for Patient EducationDesign and Print Production3D Modeling and AnimationTraditional Illustration Media

Manager, Community RelationsCAA South Central Ontario

Experienced leader that promotes road-user safety through educational campaigns and strategic partnerships.

Community RelationsCharityMarketingRoad SafetyCommunity Affairs

Professor and Department Chair, Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Phillips's research interests are in new optoelectronic materials and devices.

SemiconductorsPhotonicsInfrared

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