academic Experts

Lauren Smart

Clinical Assistant Professor of JournalismLoyola Marymount University

Karen Musalo

Professor of Law, International Law Professorship Chair and Director of the Center for Gender & Refugee StudiesUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: musalok@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4720 / Office 403-100

Claire Smrekar

Associate Professor of Leadership, Policy and OrganizationsVanderbilt University

An expert who studies K-12 school choice, charters, magnet schools, vouchers, private schools and segregation.

Zico Kolter

Associate Professor and Director of Machine LearningCarnegie Mellon University

Zico Kolter researches how to make deep learning algorithms more robust, safer, and understand how data impacts how models function.

Charles Leech

Partner & Executive Vice President (Qualitative)ABM Research Ltd.

Consumer Insights Philosopher-Guru slash Real World Semiotic Multidisciplinarian

Fatimah Tuggar

Artist & Assistant Professor of Contemporary Issues of RepresentationOCAD University

artist working with technology as both medium and subject to address issues of social and environmental justice

Eric Gable

Professor of Sociology and AnthropologyUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Gable is an expert on museum studies, heritage, and the religion and politics of West Africa and of Outer Island Indonesia.

Zoë Slatoff

Director and Clinical Professor of Yoga Studies and SanskritLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Keivan Stassun

Stevenson Professor of Physics and AstronomyVanderbilt University

Expert in the search for Earth-like planets across the galaxy and an advocate for diversity, including neurodiversity, in the academy.

Rupert Bourne

Professor of OphthalmologyAnglia Ruskin University

Rupert Bourne is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals and Director of Cambridge Eye Research Centre.