José Valentino Ruiz
Assistant Professor · University of Florida
José Valentino Ruiz is a Grammy® and Emmy® award winner who is an authority in music business and entrepreneurship.
Innovation and Technology in Music Music Production Social Impact of Music Entrepreneurs Arts/Music Entrepreneurship Music Business Practice
Lorynn Divita, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Apparel Design and Merchandising · Baylor University
Leading fashion researcher who focuses on fashion forecasting, trend contagion & textile, apparel & retail industry topics
Fashion Forecasting Fashion Contagion Fast Fashion Contemporary Culture and Fashion Fashion Merchandising
Emily Deering Crosby
Assistant Professor of Communication · University of Mary Washington
Emily Deering Crosby is a rhetorical critic of popular culture with research concentrations in feminist criticism.
Popular Culture Feminist Criticism Critical Sport Study Digital Rhetoric Women in Country Music
Clare Beckton
Executive Director · Carleton University Centre for Women in Politics and Public Leadership
Author, researcher, motivational speaker, consultant, coach and leader
Women's Leadership Strategic Planning Risk Management Aboriginal Policy Issues Inclusion and Diversity
Allen Frantzen
Author · Allen Frantzen
Allen Frantzen is an author with additional passions for boxing, gardening, family, and travel.
Boxing Writing Publishing History World War I
Jeff Wray
Associate professor of film studies and African American literature and culture · Michigan State University
Expert in Third World and Black U.S. Cinema
Filmmaking Film Studies Screenwriting Third World and Black U.S. Cinema Gay Cinema
John Taylor
Professor of Biology · Southern Utah University
Specializing in bat research, collegiate program development, STEM education, and professional development
Bat Behavior Bat Research Biological Education Collegiate Program Development Evolutionary Biology
David Davila
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts · Loyola Marymount University
Playwriting, Screenwriting, Directing, Dramaturgy, Musical Theatre Writing, Musical Theatre Performance, Arts Administration, Choral Performance, Comedy
Philip Patston
Managing Director · Diversity New Zealand Ltd
Leading diversity, creating change
Strategy Diversity Leadership Social Change Executive Mentoring
Julian Chambliss
Professor of English · Michigan State University
Julian Chambliss' research interests focus on race, culture, and power in real and imagined spaces.
Afrofuturism Black Digital Humanities Comics and Culture Comic Book Adaptations Space, Place, and Identity
Jessica Kinsey
Director and Curator of the Southern Utah Museum of Art · Southern Utah University
Specializing in community outreach and engagement, museum exhibition curation, and collection management
Art as Architecture Experiential Learning - Arts Administration Community Outreach Through Arts K-12 Art Education Fine Art
Edda L. Fields-Black
Associate Professor · Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Fields-Black is a specialist in the trans-national of West African farmers and enslaved laborers on rice plantations.
Higher Education Slave Trade History African History Rice Farmers
Kyra Pearson
Associate Professor of Communication Studies · Loyola Marymount University
College of Communication & Fine Arts
Rhetorical Criticism and Theory Public Discourse Advertising and Social Movements to Rap Music
LaShanda Korley
Distinguished Professor of Engineering · University of Delaware
Prof. Korley's research is focused on the plastics value chain, from synthetic design and manufacturing processes to life cycle management.
Bio-Inspired Systems Sustainable Materials Polymer Recycling and Upcycling Strategies New Fiber and Composite Manufacturing Strategies
Karthik Namasivayam
Director · Michigan State University
Karthik Namasivayam's research explores the intersection between service provider and consumer.
Hospitality Leadership Information Technology Systems Innovation Sustainability Restaurant Management
Adam Fung
Associate Professor of Art · Texas Christian University
Adam Fung's art studies issues such as climate change, patterns of nature and the universe.
Art Exhibitions Disappearing Ice Masses Demonstrating the Close Relationship between Art, Music and Science Painting and Drawing
Roxane Cohen Silver
Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science · UC Irvine
Roxane Cohen Silver studies stress, traumatic events, coping, disasters, health psychology and social psychology.
Health Psychology Stress Traumatic Events Coping Social Psychology
Erin Calipari
Associate Professor of Pharmacology · Vanderbilt University
Expert in the neuroscience of mental illness and addiction, including gender differences.
Opioids adaptive processes self-administered drugs Dopamine Addiction and Recovery
Fr. Luis Proenca
Professor of Production · Loyola Marymount University
Professor of Production Film & Television at Loyola Marymount University
Production and Operations Management Theology Philosophy
Ming Hsu
William Halford Professor | Haas School of Business & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute · University of California, Berkeley
Leading expert in neuromarketing and the application of biological methods to understand consumer behavior
Consumer Neuroscience Neuroeconomics Behavioral Economics Neuromarketing