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An archeologist and historian, I pioneered the application of the Complex Adaptive Systems approach to socio-environmental challenges, technology and innovation. I taught in Amsterdam, Leyden, Cambridge and Paris (Sorbonne), was Founding Director of Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Dean of its School of Sustainability. I am Fellow of the AAAS, External Faculty Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, and Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he was awarded the title "Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation".
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Lindsay Gezinski, PhD, MA, MSW (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Social Work Program at the University of Utah (USA). Formerly, she served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University in the Netherlands. Much of her research focuses on gender-based violence, human trafficking, and sexual and reproductive justice among marginalized populations. Her scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Child Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Family Violence, Violence Against Women, and the Journal of Human Trafficking.
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Ruthmae Sears, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida for secondary mathematics education, the Associate Director of Coalition for Science Literacy with a focus on Inclusive Excellence, and the lead faculty facilitator for the university’s newly created Inclusive and Equitable Pedagogy program. Her research focuses on curriculum issues, systemic change initiatives in K-20 STEM settings, the development of reasoning and proof skills, clinical experiences in secondary mathematics, and the integration of technology in mathematics.
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Msc in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Zimbabwe. Msc Thesis was on Inclusive Education. Phd student with the University of Edinburgh. Phd focus is on Young people on navigating waithood in low income urban spaces.
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An architect and interdisciplinary urban researcher, originally from Egypt. A post-graduate of Urban Design and Heritage Studies from Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany, and Alexandria University. With five years of experience in the field of urban heritage and rehabilitation of architectural buildings in historic contexts throughout participatory approach thus ensuring resilience. A member of TICCIH and ESACH. As an academic researcher, I published twice the recent of which is ""Stitching the Gap between Contemporary Archaeology and the City."
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Kudakwashe Foya is a recent graduate from the University of Zimbabwe in the department of community and social development.She has worked with several non-profit organisations, including Hope Sustains Life, which leverages technology and Innovation to provide education to refugees, starting with the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania. She is interested in research into education access, development and inclusion, as exemplified by her Say What research fellowship into COVID-19 disruptions of educational routines of Students Of Determination.This programme was funded by the Swedish Embassy.
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I teach within the Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester. I am a sociolinguist whose research focuses on language and identity; linguistic prejudice; and linguistic rights, all applied to educational contexts. Currently, my research applies such topics to the areas of World Englishes, and accentism within UK teaching, with accents a category that I argue should be protected. My university website is provided here: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/alex.baratta.html
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Dr Amy Yueming Zhang is a Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on urban politics and governance, urban knowledge and policy mobilities, postcolonial urban theory, and state-society relations of China. Amy’s current and previous work has looked into urban political economy of arts and creativity as well as land commodification in Chinese cities.
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Associate Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health, Milken Institute of Public Health
Post-doctoral Yerby Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health
PhD, Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
MS, Statisticis, Stanford University
MS, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
BS, Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Areas of Expertise: Exposure Science, Data Science, Environmental Health, Machine Learning
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Dr. Peter Bergman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-chair of the Education Technology Initiative at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. He was recently named a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow to start an Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) for Housing. He founded and directs the Learning Collider social impact lab, which partners with large-scale technology companies and organizations to innovate, test, and scale interventions that promote social mobility.