the future Experts

Colleen Haggerty

Author, Coach, Speakerself-employed

Author, Coach, Speaker

Stephen Sloan, Ph.D.

Director of Institute for Oral History, Professor of HistoryBaylor University

Oral historian specializing in U.S. history post 1941, environmental history, public history & the American West.

José Valentino Ruiz

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Multi-Grammy® and Emmy® award winner and expert in music and global entrepreneurship, creative industries, intellectual property and AI.

Toby Brooks, Ph.D.

Director, Clinical ProfessorBaylor University

Brings a passion for creating and implementing programs and processes to support faculty, staff, and students at all levels.

Laurie Levenson

Professor of LawLoyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University

David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy

Sally Scholz, PhD

Professor of Philosophy | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Sally Scholz, PhD, is an expert on solidarity, feminism, just war theory and Catholic Social Teaching.

Luvvie Ajayi

Digital StrategistThe Red Pump Project

Award-winning writer, humorist and social media strategist

Babak Baban, PhD

Associate Dean for Research, Dental College of GeorgiaAugusta University

Babak Baban, PhD, is a professor, immunologist and associate dean for research at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University.

James Hudnut-Beumler

Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious HistoryVanderbilt University

Expert in the history of religion in the American South.

Richard Starnes

Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic AffairsWestern Carolina University