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