Life Experts

Emma Strubell

Assistant Professor, Language Technologies InstituteCarnegie Mellon University

Emma Strubell's research focuses on efficient and equitable natural language processing (NLP).

Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D.

Dean Robert J. Mattauch Chair | Vice Chair of Computer ScienceVCU College of Engineering

Data scientist specializing in high-throughput structural bioinformatics of proteins & small RNAs.

Willie D. Spears Jr.

Speaker, Author, Teacher, Coach, Story TellerThe Willie Spears Experience

Willie has talked to youth & adults about Leadership, Life Choices, Teacher Inservice. Charismatic speaker. www.williespears.com .

Laura Vandenberg

Associate Vice Chancellor and Vice Provost for Research and Engagement and Professor of Environmental Health SciencesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Laura Vandenberg looks at how exposures to plastics, and other chemicals especially early in life, can predispose individuals to diseases.

Martin Kang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Rich Martini

Senior Lecturer of ProductionLoyola Marymount University

School of Film and Television

Philip Gable

Professor, Psychological and Brain SciencesUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Gable has expertise in emotion and motivational science; our sense of time, and neuroscience

Lynn Gehl

Indigenous/Indigenist Cultural Critic, Writer, AuthorIndependent

Indigenist Cultural Critic

Elizabeth Cauffman

Professor of Psychological Science, Education and LawUC Irvine

Elizabeth Cauffman’s research addresses the intersect between adolescent development and juvenile justice.

Gregg Stull

Professor and ChairUniversity of Mary Washington

Gregg Stull is the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at University of Mary Washington.