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Sonya Atalay

Provost Professor of Anthropology and Director of Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS)University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sonya Atalay explores ways that repatriation and reclaiming of heritage provides lessons for decolonizing and Indigenizing institutions

Ethan Zuckerman

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication and InformationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Ethan Zuckerman's work focuses on building alternatives to the commercial internet.

Richard Peltier

Professor of Environmental Health SciencesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Richard Peltier's research looks at how poor air quality affects human health.

Ivan Lee

Associate Professor, Manning College of Information and Computer SciencesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Ivan Lee develops mobile and personalized health solutions.

Carmel Majidi

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Carmel Majidi’s mission is to discover materials and methods that allow robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms.

Larry Payne

InstructorLoyola Marymount University

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography and Professor of EnglishUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Gretchen Gerzina is a specialist on the novel and biography, focusing on Black British studies, Victorian studies and mixed race studies..

Meghan Huber

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Meghan Huber's research focuses on understanding how humans and robots can learn from their physical interaction

Todd Petersen

Professor of EnglishSouthern Utah University

Specializing in formal structures of visual storytelling, creative writing, film theory, and aesthetics

Deena Weisberg, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain SciencesVillanova University

Deena Weisberg, Ph.D., studies imaginative cognition and scientific thinking in young children and adults.