Lecturer in media and communications, University of Sydney Catherine Page Jeffery is a lecturer in media and communications at the University of Sydney. Her research examines families and digital media, with a particular focus on parenting in the digital age. She used to work in media regulation and cyber safety education.
Senior Lecturer, Massey University Originally from Texas, Collin Bjork lectures in writing, rhetoric, science communication, and podcasting. He taught English at the University of Montenegro as a Fulbright Fellow. And he is currently working on a book about true crime podcasting and justice. He also operates a podcast about podcasting called Pod Uni.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross Dr. Carmen Alvaro Jarrín received their Ph.D. from Duke University and they are Associate Professor of Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. Their research explores the imbrication of medicine, the body and inequality in Brazil, with foci on plastic surgery, genomics and gender nonconforming activism. They are the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil (University of California Press), which explored the eugenic underpinnings of raciological thought among plastic surgeons, and the aesthetic hierarchies of beauty that reinforce racial inequality in Brazil. They are also co-editor of two collections of essays: Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping and Replacement (Berghahn Books), and Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair and Resistance in Brazil (Rutgers University Press).
Research Director at the UNH Sales Center and Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of New Hampshire Dr. Cinthia B. Satornino is the Research Director for UNH Sales Center and an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. After earning an MBA at the University of Florida and spending more than a decade in corporate and institutional settings as a business professional and consultant, she attended Florida State University and earned her Ph.D. She has coauthored several publications, including award-winning articles in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, and the Journal of Marketing Education. Most recently, she and her coauthors earned the Marvin Jolson Award for Best Contribution to Selling and Sales Management Practice from JPSSM. Her work has been cited by media outlets including Fast Company and Fortune. She was invited to serve as a panelist for the Fulfilling America's Future: Latinas in the U.S. summit held at the White House in Washington, D.C., and was recognized as one of the Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants in 2017. Cinthia is a frequent speaker and panelist at practitioner and academic conferences, continues to be an active consultant, and conducts marketing management and strategy workshops for both private and public organizations.
Professor, Microbiology, Monash University Professor Chris Greening leads the One Health Microbiology group at Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute. Following a first-class degree in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the University of Oxford (2010), he undertook a doctorate at the University of Otago (2013) investigating the physiological roles of the hydrogenases in mycobacteria. He then gained postdoctoral and lecturing experience at the University of Otago, CSIRO, and Australian National University. In 2016, he was appointed as a group leader in Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences and completed an environmentally-focused ARC DECRA Fellowship. In 2020, he moved to Monash’s Department of Microbiology to take up a medically-focused NHMRC EL2 Fellowship. Trained in the fields of biochemistry and microbiology, Chris also has experience in genetics, microbial ecology, and molecular evolution, and thrives working across disciplines. He is a CI on three major projects, RISE: Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments, the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, and SAEF: Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future. In 2020, Chris joined the Monash Centre to Impact AMR as a founding member and chair of the environmental engineering strategy group, and is currently developing and leading the Centre's AMR R&D Facility. In 2022, he was awarded the Fenner Medal from the Australian Academy of Science.
Assistant Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University Chris Lituma’s research interests focus on grassland and early-successional bird population ecology, landscape conservation ecology, and how conservation practices affect bird populations. He is also interested in understanding how continued human population expansion and the wildland-urban interface will affect the significance of private lands in avian conservation, as well as the full life-cycle conservation and understating avian population dynamics during migration and on wintering grounds. He earned his bachelor’s in biology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, a master’s in wildlife and fisheries sciences from Texas A&M University, and a doctorate in natural resources from the University of Tennessee.