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Bestselling author of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, former executive vice president of CNN, and before that a key player in the creation of the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1966 Civil Rights Act during the Johnson Administration
Founder and former head of school of the Northwest School who has been recognized as a Changemaker by Global Washington for her current work as executive director of the International Leadership Academy of Ethiopia
Debbie Warnock's work draws upon sociology, education, and social statistics to investigate how underrepresented students access and experience higher education.
Steve Moog is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on everyday acts of resistance enacted by anarchist punks in Indonesia. He utilizes collaborative multimodal ethnography and anarchist methodologies in his research and teaching.
First United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues and former executive director of Global Rights
Megan Bulloch is a psychologist curious about the role of authenticity in higher education and the classroom. Her work spans comparative cognition, developmental psychology, and currently rests in transdisciplinary innovations in pedagogical development.
In post-conflict transitions, whose visions of peace are privileged? Which structures of war are disassembled, and which are left intact? Kate Paarlberg-Kvam’s work brings together studies of peace processes and Latin American social movements to examine transitions as moments of socioeconomic reckoning.
Public health activist tackling reproductive health issues in Tanzania and Mozambique for leading NGOs
Marios Falaris is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose work considers the effects of militarization in everyday life, focusing on intimacy, gender, mood, and sound, in Indian-occupied Kashmir and in Baltimore, Maryland.
Teddy Pozo is a nonbinary trans* scholar and artist studying haptic media: touch, intimacy, and bodies in video games, media history, and virtual worlds.
Called a “creative disruptor” in the field of agricultural finance by Forbes and currently pursuing an MBA at Stanford University.
Founder of the Lab School, a groundbreaking program for children with learning disabilities, and a leading expert in special education
Liz Ahn Toupin was one of the country's first Asian American college deans. Her career at Tufts spanned a tumultuous period of societal, educational and institutional upheaval.
An award-winning teacher, Ronald Cohen focused his research in social psychology on issues of justice and silence, and took his practice into the community with his work on reparative justice.
Anne Gilman employs behavioral, big-data, and electrophysiological methods to track the impact of long-term expertise on fast-acting cognitive processes. Her research on musical training and language expertise as influences on memory informs the design of multimedia displays.
President of Marlboro College and a central figure in the Clinton White House in the 1990s
Feminist writer whose work was a lightning rod for the debate on pornography and censorship in the United States
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Emily Waterman is an applied developmental scientist who aims to promote youth development through mixed-method research and evaluation.
Founder of Bibeksheel Nepali, a populist political party founded in the wake of Nepal’s 2015 earthquake
Heather Vermeulen’s research and teaching focuses on transatlantic slavery and its afterlives, ecology, literature and arts of the African Diaspora, and gender and sexuality studies.
Catherine McKeen is a philosopher whose research focuses on ancient Greek thought, gender, and politics.
Kimberly Van Orman is a philosopher of the mind whose work stretches into the philosophy of science and who asks what minds are made of and how they are formed from experience.
Practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and author of the critically acclaimed book of short stories, Scary Old Sex
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TECxTimesSquare board member and expert on “improvised careers”—nonlinear, multi-modal paths that help people succeed in the global borderless workplace—whose own résumé ranges from session musician to IBM executive
Founder of Protravel International and Travel Weekly Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
Özge Savaş is a critical and applied social psychologist. She works with historically and systemically disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and communities, combining decolonial and intersectional feminist theories in explaining how systems of oppression are maintained. She examines the role of stigma, stereotypes, and prejudice in intergroup conflict.