community Experts

Jan Lacina

Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education | Interim Director of Starpoint and KinderFrogs SchoolsTexas Christian University

Dr. Lacina's teaching and research interests focus on literacy leadership, children's literature, and early childhood teacher preparation.

Adam Frank

Professor of astrophysics, science commentator, and popular authorUniversity of Rochester

Adam Frank is a self-described “evangelist of science,” who writes about intelligent life forms, space exploration, climate change and more.

Andrea Hershatter

Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management; Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate EducationEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Mangalpreet Singh

LecturerAston University

Seasoned pharmacy professional with experience across community, hospital, primary care, prison, pharma industry, and academia.

Andy Horowitz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Connecticut State HistorianUniversity of Connecticut

Dr. Horowitz is a public historian, scholar of the modern United States, and Connecticut's State Historian.

Katherine Wikoff, Ph.D.

ProfessorMilwaukee School of Engineering

Dr. Katherine Wikoff focuses her work on user experience, technical communication, humanities and literature.

Robert Singleton

Associate Professor Emeritus of EconomicsLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Philip McHarris

Assistant Professor of Black StudiesUniversity of Rochester

McHarris is an expert in politics and race, policing, incarceration, housing, racism, and race and inequality.

Brian Treanor

President's Professor of PhilosophyLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Natalie Munro, Ph.D.

Professor of AnthropologyUniversity of Connecticut

Professor Munro focuses on the origin of feasting and animal domestication, and the transition from foraging to farming in human evolution