PhD Candidate in Public Health and Epidemiology, Imperial College London In her academic career, Allison is a PhD Candidate in Public Health and Epidemiology at Imperial College London, where she is developing a method and prototype for determining the environmental impacts of packaged foods and beverages, aimed at informing sustainable food policy. She holds her Masters in Global Health and Epidemiology from the University of Oxford and her Bachelors in Information Science from Cornell University. Allison has become highly-accomplished in her 10 years of experience in healthcare data management, execution and data analytics, specializing in clinical analysis and healthcare systems technology and recognized for driving innovation in electronic medical record interoperability. Allie worked at Aetion on strengthening client experiences using their real-world evidence platform and at Athena Health driving innovation on their interoperability with other healthcare platforms using HL7 standards.
Professor of Intersectional Humanities, National University of Ireland Maynooth Professor Anna Hickey-Moody is a notable figure in the fields of intersectional feminism, creative practice and youth studies. She holds the position of Professor of Intersectional Humanities at Maynooth, NUI. She has been recognised as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and an RMIT University Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow. Anna has written 8 books and edited numerous collections. She has also made a number of creative works which have been shown in London, Manchester, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Practitioner-in-Residence, Information Law Institute, New York University Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project’s (S.T.O.P.’s) founder and executive director. He is also a Practitioner-in-Residence at N.Y.U Law School’s Information Law Institute and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, Ashoka, and TED. As a lawyer, technologist, and activist, Albert has become a leading voice on how to govern and build the technologies of the future. He started S.T.O.P. with the belief that local surveillance is an unprecedented threat to public safety, equity, and democracy. Albert is a frequent commentator, with more than 100 articles in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Guardian, WIRED, Slate, NBC Think, Newsweek, and other publications. His TED Talk has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. He frequently lectures at leading universities and speaks at leading technology governance forums. Albert previously served as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he advised Fortune 50 companies on technology policy, antitrust law, and consumer privacy. Albert also serves on the New York Immigration Coalition’s Immigrant Leaders Council, IEEE Standards Association P3119 AI Procurement Working Group, and is an editorial board member for the Anthem Ethics of Personal Data Collection. He was also a founding member of the the New York Immigrant Freedom Fund’s Advisory Council. Albert received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review), and his B.A. in Politics and Philosophy from Brandeis University.
Research Fellow, Australian National University Anthony Purcell is a mathematical geophysicist and has worked at the Australian National University's Research School of Earth Science since 2010. He specialises in the analysis of paleo-sea-level, satellite gravimetry, and changes in Earth's geometry, rotation, and gravity in response to changes in surface load, particularly mass exchanges between ice sheets and oceans. His position is funded through the CRC-P program. ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5289-3902
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara I am historian of twentieth-century social movements with a specialization in Black internationalism, transnational movements, and radical organizing throughout North America, Africa, and the broader Black world. I am interested in conceptual and political histories of anti-apartheid, decolonization, African diaspora, Blackness and Black consciousness, anti-colonialism, and abolition. I earned my doctorate in History and African American Studies from Yale University in 2022 where I was awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone prize for best dissertation in African and African American art and culture. I was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University, a dissertation fellow in UCSB’s Department of Black Studies, and a History Workshop fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. I hold master’s degrees in International and World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, where I wrote my thesis on the international student anti-apartheid movement. I also earned a master’s degree in Education from Fordham University in New York City, where I worked as a special education teacher for the U.S. Department of Education at a middle school in the South Bronx. I received my AB in Classics and International Studies from Dartmouth College in 2011. My research has been supported by the Black Studies Department at Northwestern University, the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, the Black Metropolis Research Center, the Newcombe Foundation at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, the UCSB Department of Black Studies, the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Foundation, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) as well as the History Department, the African American Studies Department, the MacMillan Center, and International Security Studies at Yale University. Since 2020, I have been a host of the New Books in African American Studies podcast channel on the New Books Network.
Graduate Researcher and Teaching Fellow in International Law, The University of Melbourne Andrea Furger is a Graduate Researcher and a Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School (MLS). Her research focuses on international criminal law and state cooperation from an interdisciplinary angle (law/international relations) and her doctoral thesis examines the complexities of extraterritorial evidence collection in the context of investigations and prosecutions of core international crimes (war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, crime of aggression). Andrea joined MLS in 2022 after over a decade as a practitioner in the field of international criminal justice, human rights, and diplomacy. She worked at the International Criminal Court (Office of the Prosecutor), the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Torture) and the Swiss Federal Public Prosecutor's Office. Andrea holds an LLM in International Criminal Justice and Armed Conflict from the University of Nottingham (UK) and a Licence/Master of Arts from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
