academic Experts

Rayid Ghani

Distinguished Career ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Rayid Ghani designs and deploys AI systems with governments for health, housing and justice and advises them on AI governance & evaluation.

Vicki J. Magley, Ph.D.

Professor of PsychologyUniversity of Connecticut

Professor Magley researches sexual harassment coping at individual and organizational levels

John Covach

Professor of Music and Director of the Institute for Popular Music; Professor of Theory at Eastman School of MusicUniversity of Rochester

John Covach is an expert on the history of popular and rock music, 12-tone music, and the philosophy and aesthetics of music.

Luca Cottini, PhD

Professor of Italian Studies | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Luca Cottini, PhD, is a scholar of 20th-century Italian design and literature and the creator of the YouTube channel "Italian Innovators."

Molly Ryan Epstein

Professor Emerita in the Practice of Organization & ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Helping students and professionals lead and communicate better.

Cindy Ott

Associate Professor | Director, Graduate StudiesUniversity of Delaware

Expert in American food and culture, history and memory, material and visual culture, and race and ethnicity studies

Ken Keen

Associate Professor Emeritus in the Practice of Organization & ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Erika V. Hall

Associate Professor of Organization & Management; Faculty Advisor, Business & Society InstituteEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Hall's research focuses on the influence of race, gender, and class-based stereotypes and implicit biases on workplace interactions.

Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia

President & CEODigital Nova Scotia

Multilingual senior level ICT executive with over 20 years in the private, public and academic sectors, spanning five geographic regions.

Swati Gupta

Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems EngineeringGeorgia Tech - College of Engineering

Gupta's research focuses on optimization, machine learning, and bias and fairness within the AI sphere.