development Experts

Elaine Power

Associate Professor School of Kinesiology & Health Studies, Queen's University

Teaches social determinants of health. Researches food insecurity. Advocates for basic income. Dreams of the day when food banks can close.

Jodi Bruhn

Director / DirectriceStratéjuste

Jodi Bruhn is a published policy researcher, author and facilitator specializing in governance and indigenous/Crown relations.

Andrea Hlady

PresidentCastle-Crown Wilderness Coalition

Andrea Hlady is the president of a grassroots conservation group that advocates for protection of the Castle Wildland area (SW Alberta).

Brian Levine, M.D.

Chief Academic Officer. Intellectual Property Administrator and Designated Institutional OfficialChristianaCare

Dr. Brian Levine is an expert in emergency medicine and specializes in graduate and undergraduate medical education.

Jill Perry-Smith

Professor of Organization & ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Kostadin Damevski, Ph.D.

Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Computer Science; Co-Director, Software Engineering CenterVCU College of Engineering

Builds machine learning and AI systems that study and support how software developers communicate, reason about code, and handle security.

Robert Bryce

Senior FellowThe Manhattan Institute

One of America’s most prominent energy journalists, a dynamic public speaker, and a regular commentator on national television.

Barbara Roche Rico

Professor EmeritusLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Efstathios Michaelides

W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Founding Chair of EngineeringTexas Christian University

Professor Michaelides focuses on lifetime of fossil fuel resources, alternative energy, geothermal energy and nanofluids.

Jessica Vapnek

Lecturer, Global Programs Advisor, and Director of the M.S.L. ProgramUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: vapnekjessica@uchastings.edu