Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy, University of Sheffield
Joshua Forstenzer is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
He is the author of Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy (2019).
He has published widely on John Dewey, American Pragmatism, democratic theory, and the philosophy of education. His current research project focuses on pragmatist ethical responses to catastrophe.
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Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
I am an Assistant Professor at the Warwick Business School and a Research Associate at the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change. I received my PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Research. I previously worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Essex , a Senior Researcher at The Education Policy Institute and held a visiting position at the ifo Institute.
My research agenda can broadly fit into three categories: Teachers and Teacher Labour Markets, Education Inequalities and Survey Methods.
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Associate Professor of Instruction of Sport & Recreation Management, University of Iowa
A former attorney and college athletics administrator, Lens’s teaching and scholarship focus on the intersections of sports, business, and the law.
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Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Joshua Long received his PhD from the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice in 2020. He has published research on juvenile drug court evaluations, risk assessment validation, prison classification, and matching treatment to the needs of justice involved clients. He is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where he teaches classes on the corrections system, victimology, and research methods.
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Researcher, The University of Queensland
I am a trained historian and anthropologist who carries out applied research on how indigenous communities are affected by developments such as conservation, infrastructure building, resource extraction and climate change. I have published on these topics in high impact factor journals (including edited books published by Springer and Routledge). My research has obtained funding from several organizations, individuals, government departments and universities.
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Joshua Newell is a professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a broadly trained human-environment geographer, whose research focuses on questions related to urban sustainability, resource consumption, and environmental and social justice. Newell’s current research can be divided into two primary areas of interest. The first, Urban Infrastructure and Form, focuses on structural features of the urban form (e.g. built environment, transport, energy, and water infrastructure). The second research area, Urban Consumption and Commodities, focuses on the interrelationships between the consumption of consumer products, our responsibilities as global 'green' urban citizens, and the role of governance mechanisms and frameworks (including local institutions) in regulating product consumption. His research approach is often multi-scalar and integrative and, in addition to theory and method found in geography and urban planning, he draws upon principles and tools of industrial ecology, and spatial analysis. He teaches Sustainability and Society, a large undergraduate course, and Urban Sustainability, which is designed for MS and PhD students. He also leads a year-long interdisciplinary PhD student workshop that grapples with theories and concepts of urbanism, sustainability, and resilience.
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Team Leader, Research Fellow, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Dr Josh Osowicki is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases physician and Team Leader in the Tropical Diseases research group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, Australia. He is an early career clinician-scientist and emerging research leader whose work focusses on Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and human challenge research as an innovative platform for accelerating research and development of vaccines and other interventions targeting high-priority pathogens.
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Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
Joshua W. Pate, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. His research focus is on a child’s concept of pain; Josh is fascinated by how re-conceptualizing pain according to contemporary science may change the way pain is treated. As part of his PhD he developed the Concept of Pain Inventory (COPI) and he is now working on developing and testing educational resources. Josh worked with TED-Ed to make two online animations with millions of views, he co-founded a pain science interview platform (‘One Thing’), and he authored the Zoe and Zak’s Pain Hacks series of children’s books each targeting a learning outcome for pain science education. Josh is on the Scientific Program Committee for the Australian Pain Society and he has been an invited speaker at several international scientific conferences. He dreams of generational conceptual and behaviour change regarding the complexity of pain.
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PhD Candidate - Nutrition and Genetic Epidemiology, University of South Australia
I am an allied health professional (Certified Practicing Nutritionist), and an NSA Associate Nutritionist. I am undertaking my PhD at the Australian Centre for Precision Health, at University of South Australia, under the supervision of Profession Elina Hypponen. My work focuses on vitamin D and genetic epidemiology.
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Dr Joshua Trigg is a public health researcher with training and experience in psychological and population health research. His work focuses on health and occupational health risk factors, risk attitudes and motivators of risk behaviours.
Dr Trigg came to the Flinders Public Health Team from Cancer Council South Australia, where he researched tobacco and alcohol use attitudes and behaviours, as well as community perceptions of culturally focused tobacco cessation messaging. His previous work has examined motivators and inhibitors of emergency risk taking behaviour, and wellbeing and quality of life domains, and has used various quantitative and qualitative methods.
He is a member of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs and Public Health Association of Australia, and has worked with government health bodies, non-profits and various community organisations across Australia. His current research interests include:
- Tobacco control and smoking cessation
- Vaping and e-cigarette use
- Alcohol consumption patterns
- Health risk behaviours
- Health promotion/risk messaging effectiveness
- Wellbeing and quality of life
Qualifications
- PhD (Psychology)
- BPsycSci(Hon) (First Class)
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Associate Professor of Pathology, Penn State
Joshua Warrick is a physician scientist who practices surgical pathology and studies the genomics of bladder cancer.
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Knowledges, Deakin University
Joshua Waters is a First Nations K/Gamilaroi man, PhD student and Senior Research Fellow with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. His work explores the critical role of Indigenous Knowledges in global higher education and institutional contexts.
Joshua is also a core member of Deakin University's Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Lab and a Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Collective (IKSC) where he supports a number of regional, national and international partnerships and research projects aimed at utilising Indigenous knowledges and complexity for global systems innovation and change.
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph
Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Academic Co-Director of the Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI), and Faculty Affiliate at the One Health Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. His research spans topics in applied ethics and moral psychology.
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Associate Professor of Management and Dean Paul R. Gowens Excellence Professor in Business, Texas State University
Joshua J. Daspit, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Management and the Dean Paul R. Gowens Excellence Professor in Business at Texas State University. He specializes in entrepreneurship research, focusing on family firms and small businesses.
Dr. Daspit has over 40 scholarly publications. His work has appeared in numerous well-known outlets, such as California Management Review, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Family Business Review, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Research, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and others.
He serves as an Associate Editor for Family Business Review and previously held a similar role for the Journal of Family Business Strategy. Additionally, he is on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Journal of Family Business Management, and several other academic journals.
Dr. Daspit is focused on conducting relevant research and applying insights to help businesses. To this end, Dr. Daspit serves as the Director of SCALEUP (scaleup.txst.edu), a university-wide program at Texas State with the goal of helping small businesses grow. Additionally, as a Research Fellow, he worked with the university's Translational Health Research Center to launch an awards program recognizing small businesses across Texas.
Dr. Daspit is also passionate about helping students. In 2020, he received international recognition as "Best Advisor," along with co-advisor Dr. Corey Fox, for working with the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization. In 2021, he was honored with a Presidential Award for Excellence at Texas State University. That same year, he was recognized as a "Top 40 Under 40" LGBTQ leader in North America, an honor given to those demonstrating excellent leadership and making noteworthy contributions.
Before entering academia, Dr. Daspit worked as a senior consultant for an international consulting firm and served as Director of Community Affairs for a member of the United States Congress. He founded a business in 2017 and currently works with various organizations through his consulting work and community engagement.
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
I am the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence and a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. I am director of the Amazon Science Hub at UW and the Sensor Systems Lab. I am a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford
Originally from Perth, Western Australia, I grew up in a household full of birds, fish, reptiles, two dogs, and my biologist parents. My first job was as a chorus singer with the West Australian Opera company, but I've always been fascinated by the social effects of music. This interest led me to complete a doctorate at the University of Oxford where I studied the cognitive processes underlying the synchrony-bonding effect. In my research, I like to combine multidisciplinary perspectives from psychology, biology and anthropology, to understand why people make music together.
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and also a research affiliate with the Social Body Lab at the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (University of Oxford, UK).
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Chancellor's Professor in Engineering, Climate Change and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
Joshua S. Fu is Chancellor's Professor, John D. Tickle Professor of Engineering, James G. Gibson Professor in Climate Change, and Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Inaugural Professor of the UT-ORNL Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, Joint Appointment Professor in Computational Earth Sciences Group in Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The focus of Fu’s research work includes climate change impacts on energy infrastructure, air pollution, water availability, and extreme events like heatwaves, floods and droughts, wildfires, and human health. The additional focus is to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques on climate change, human health, and mapping global total atmospheric deposition. Currently, my research team is utilizing a petascale supercomputer to simulate Arctic ice melting and improve the model on coupling chemistry and climate modules in a global (1 degree) scale and downscaling to a regional scale (4 km) and participating in developing the new chemistry solver for the US DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).
Fu has served Vice-Chair of the Measurement-Model Fusion for the Global Total Atmospheric Deposition (MMF-GTAD) of the new initiative in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), contributed as a co-author of the Final Report of the Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN Task Force Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution) and reviewing committee member for air quality status in East Asia for the EANET, a governmental consortium in East Asia and located in Japan. He also was a co-author of the Technical Report, Climate Change, and Infrastructure, Urban System, and Vulnerability, to the Department of Energy in support of the National Climate Assessment in 2012. He served as an international adviser/expert on East Asia/China air quality modeling assessments such as the Beijing and Shanghai air quality modeling assessment for the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, a modeling lead of the Model Intercomparison Study (MICS-Asia), and a modeling member for HTAP on air quality and climate change. He contributed climate modeling results for IPCC AR5 based on RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios.
He develops and provides scientifically sound, cost-effective analysis tools to design and develop complex climate and environmental model applications. There is an example, he is one of the initiators for the Air Benefit and Attainment Assessment Cost System (ABaCAS) that has been used internationally.
Fu has published more than 160 referred journal articles and 110 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He has been an invited speaker including keynote and lecture for more than 100 times in Asia, Europe, and the US. Also, and has been interviewed or reported on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Science Daily, @EurekAlert!, Red Orbit, and more than 30 media to discuss issues of international and national importance on climate change/extreme events and air quality.
Fu obtained his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, MS from UCLA, and BS from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University.
His areas of research include:
Wildfires and human health
AI/Machines learning in air quality, climate, forest/crops, health, socioeconomic data
Global and regional climate, energy, and air quality
Peta-scale computing on coupled climate and air quality modeling
Climate downscaling toward impacts of air quality, water resources, human health
Assessment of hemispheric transport and climatic effects of air pollutants:
Global and Regional Modeling of Ozone and Particular Matter
Agricultural Air Quality (ammonia, methane)
Transportation conformity and air quality
Air Toxics Modeling – link to the homeland and international security
Develop environmental modeling and decision support tools for complex multi-discipline ecosystem
Genetic algorithm and stochastic-based optimization applications in a high-performance computing
Data management/data mining and information technology applications in environmental management systems
Reliability, uncertainty, and risk analysis in environmental systems
The human dimension in environmental systems
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Director of Programs, Congo Research Group, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
Joshua Z. Walker is the director, Congo Research Group at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation. He has been working in and researching the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2004. Before joining CIC, he was a research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has also worked for The Carter Center and the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC.
His research on politics, economy, and culture in the DRC sits at the intersection of academic knowledge and policymaking. It has included work on extractive economies and their social effects, public culture, and conflict and politics in the DRC.
Walker holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago, a Master’s degree in anthropology and development from the London School of Economics, and a BA in political science from McGill University.
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Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University
I am a lecturer and qualitative researcher in Social Sciences, with a PhD in Psychology. I have worked in Healthcare Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Medical School. I have also worked in the third sector in mental health services and in research and policy roles.
My areas of interest are:
Neurodiversity, particularly autism and ADHD
Identities, especially minoritised and stigmatised identity management
I have a longstanding interest in mental health and wellbeing. I work mainly in qualitative methods. I conduct qualitative interviews and am developing ways to work with creative methods.
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Assistant Prof. Ecology, University of Leeds
I am a researcher at the University of Leeds, UK in aquatic ecology. I hold a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in "Upscaling invasion impact prediction" - which focuses on freshwater invasions across time and space. Broadly I am a fisheries and conservation scientist.
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Professor of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University
Joubert has worked at Stellenbosch University for 24 years. He obtained a PhD in industrial engineering and an MBA through Stellenbosch University. Joubert developed the container demand model used by Transnet Group Planning to inform port and rail infrastructure planning in terms of national port and domestic container volumes. He has a keen interest in macro-economic modelling and research within supply chain management and sustainable freight transport. Joubert provides research guidance to graduate students in the fields of supply chain and logistics management and freight modelling.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecohydrology Research Group, University of Waterloo
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Joy conducts a research program in applied ichthyology with a strong focus on fish health research and the pathobiology of infectious diseases. She uses an array of investigative tools from a variety of disciplines, such as epidemiology, immunology, microbiology and physiology to research important aquatic pathogens affecting both aquaculture species and wild fish populations.
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Adjunct Associate Professor Joy Lee leads the Asthma and Allergy Unit at the Austin Hospital and consults for Melbourne Allergy Asthma & Immunology Consultants, as well as in the public sector at the Alfred Hospital and Monash Medical Centre. She has a special interest in the management and treatment of allergic diseases, including allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma. She has experience in the use of immunotherapy for grass pollen and dust mite allergy as well as monoclonal antibody treatments for severe asthma and urticaria.
Dr Lee has a PhD with the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her thesis focus was on improving asthma inhaler usage and difficult to control asthma. She has also undertaken research on epidemic thunderstorm asthma.
Dr Lee is an investigator in clinical trials for therapies in asthma and allergic nasal disease. Her research has been recognised with awards from both the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the National Asthma Council. She is a sought-after speaker, media expert and medical educator.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide
Joy McEntee writes on Stanley Kubrick, American Film, and Literature to Film Adaptation. She is affiliated with the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Adelaide.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Creative Arts, La Trobe University
Hester is a leading academic in policy analysis and implementation in the creative industries and arts sector, with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She has a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused on Arts Policy.
Hester has numerous industry credits as a script consultant, scriptwriter, actor and theatre and screen maker.
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Professor, Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Joyeeta Gupta is the 2023 winner of the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in the Netherlands for academic work (Euro 1.5 Million). She co-chaired UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6 (2016-2021), published by Cambridge University Press, presented to governments at the United Nations Environment Assembly in 2019, and won the Association of American Publishers PROSE award for Environmental Science. She is presently cochair of the Earth Commission (2019-2022), set up by Future Earth, together with Johan Rockström and Dahe Qin and has a plenary presentation to the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2023; and is member of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (2022-2024) which is preparing a report for the UN Water Conference of 2023. In 2022, she was awarded the 2022 Piers Sellers Prize for world leading contribution to solution-focused climate research, recent world-leading research outputs and evidence of resulting impacts; application of an interdisciplinary approach; and focus on climate solutions, Priestley International Centre for Climate, Leeds University.
She is full professor of environment and development in the global south at the University of Amsterdam and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. She is also the Faculty Professor on Sustainability (2019-2024). She leads the programme group on Governance and Inclusive Development. She was lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment which won the Zaved Second Prize. She has published several books, is on the editorial board of seven journals, and has (co-)edited 13 Special Issues. Her Google Scholar Impact Factor is 64, with 120 journal papers and more than 17,000 citations. She has successfully supervised 29 PhDs and is currently supervising 20 PhD students in the areas of climate change, forest, food/fish, water and disaster governance as well as in development challenges such as food governance and child marriage. She has been on the scientific steering committees of international and national scientific programmes. At national level, she was the Vice-President of the Commission on Development Cooperation (2011-2019) and member of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (2011-2019), a statutory body that advises three Cabinet Ministers in the Netherlands. In 2019 she won an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million Euros for work on climate change and fossil fuels.
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Carolina
Dr. Jackson's educational background includes a Doctorate in Education from the University of South Carolina in May 2012. Her major area of focus for this degree was in Curriculum and Instruction. She completed her Masters in Nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina with a focus in Nursing Education in May 2007. Her BSN is from the University of South Carolina in May 2003. In addition, Dr. Rivers holds the following certification: NCC Certification-Maternal/Newborn Nursing.
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Professorial Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
Jozef Syktus is the Director of the University of Queensland and Department of Environment and Science (DES) collaborative research program on regional climate projection. He has over 30 years of experience of climate modelling and climate research. His has completed research with using global and regional climate model to investigate paleo-climate, land use change, drought, heatwaves, seasonal forecasting, and global and regional climate change projections. Jozef was a Science leader of projects contributing the CSIRO Mk3.6 climate model simulations to the CMIP5 archive, and dynamical downscaling of CMIP5 and CMIP6 models for Australia. At DES he was the Science Leader of the project delivering the regional climate projections for Queensland (https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/qld-future-climate/dashboard/ ).
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Research Fellow in physiotherapy, Curtin University
Dr JP Caneiro has over 17 years of experience as a clinician, researcher and lecturer on the field of musculoskeletal pain management. He has published over 40 research papers and presented his work in key conferences across the globe. He is an emerging leader on the field of chronic pain, particularly in the management of back pain and osteoarthritis.
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Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Quinnipiac University
I am an educator for educators, helping teachers of all kinds design learning environments that empower all students to shape the worlds they want for themselves.
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Head of School of Built Environment, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Technology Sydney
Jua Cilliers is Head of the School of Built Environment, within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at UTS. She is Professor in Urban Planning and currently also serves as the President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners.
She holds a 4-year professional degree (B.Art et Scien) and Master’s degree (M.Art et Scien) in Urban and Regional Planning, an additional Master’s degree in Economics (M.Com), as well as a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning.
She is a former finalist of the prestigious National Science and Technology Awards in South Africa and the Woman in Science Awards, and winner of the South African National Teaching Excellence Award. She is also the recipient of the 2024 NAWIC NSW Executive Leadership Award.
Currently she actively leads public workshops, symposia and industry training events to share her research expertise pertaining to the planning of sustainable cities, green-infrastructure planning, nature-based solutions and community engagement to enhance resilience and broader quality of life. With experience as chief investigator across Africa, Europe and Australia, Jua is unwaveringly committed to driving real change, shaping the future of our cities, and empowering the leaders who will inherit them.
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