Associate professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014) and the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020). Candis is a member of the Tahltan Nation (located in what is now known as Northern British Columbia), an award-winning former journalist, and a regular contributor to the podcast, Media Indigena.
PhD Candidate in Geology, University of Oxford Cooper Malanoski is a Ph.D. candidate at Oxford University studying the impact of climate on extinction and paleobiogeographic patterns.
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University Cassie has extensive experience in shark fisheries, research, conservation and management (>25 years) with a focus in recent years on CITES, IUCN Red List assessments, and global and Pacific shark conservation. Cassie is currently the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group SSG Red List Authority Coordinator, co-ordinating and drafting global Red List assessments. Since her PhD, on deepwater chondrichthyans life history, Cassie has been actively engaged in shark conservation issues, contributing to ecological risk assessments of South Pacific and South Indian Ocean deepwater sharks to high seas fishing, compiling risk summaries of all Australian sharks and rays, developing WWF tools to improve shark management (the Rapid Assessment Toolkit and the Shark and Ray MPA Guide), and producing a Preliminary Recovery Plan for Scalloped Hammerheads in the Indian Ocean. Cassie has trained Pacific countries and Indonesia to undertake Non-Detriment Findings (NDF) of CITES listed sharks and rays, and has prepared NDFs for Australian recently listed CITES species which were listed at the 2022 CITES Conference of the Parties, where Cassie was the SSG CITES representative providing scientific advice on carcharhinid, guitarfishes and hammerhead listing proposals to governments, NGOs and Parties.
Research Scientist & Team Leader, CSIRO My work covers 3 main research streams and their associated application areas: (1) artificial intelligence and machine learning (including deep learning), (2) AI ethics and Responsible AI, (3) high performance numerical computing (mathematical software).
Visiting lecturer in film studies, University of Westminster Cecilia Zoppelletto, PhD, started her career as a news producer for the London correspondence bureau of RAI, the Italian National Broadcasting Company, and later worked as a factual content producer for the Italian network Antenna Tre Nordest. She is the founder and director of Preston Witman Productions in London. Cecilia made her directorial debut with La Belle at The Movies (2015), which screened at more than twenty international film festivals, including the African Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York, and the BFI British Film Institute in London in 2019. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster in London and in 2020, she initiated the film studies program at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Kinshasa. In 2023, she completed two documentaries, which she co-produced and co-directed: the short animation film Ota Benga about the pigmy who was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo, and the feature AP Giannini: Bank to the Future about the founder of Bank of America. During the same year, she established the company Zop Media Consulting in DRC. In 2024 Cecilia has joined the Board of Directors of African Film Festival Inc in New York City. She is a creator and an educator with a keen interest in archive preservation.
