Law Student at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Research Assistant for the Excellence in Policing and Public Safety Program, University of South Carolina Caroline McAtee is a third-year law student at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. Her current roles within her law school community include Student Director for the SC Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and research assistant for the Excellence in Policing and Public Safety Program. Caroline spent her first summer in law school working as a law clerk for the SC Commission on Indigent Defense in its Capital Trials Division, representing indigent clients facing the death penalty. The next summer, Caroline clerked for the Richland County Public Defender's Office, where she plans to step into the role of assistant public defender following graduation. Prior to her time at the University of South Carolina, Caroline earned her B.S. in Multidisciplinary Anthropology from Appalachian State University in 2021, where she crafted her degree around the anthropology of crime, criminalization, and violence.
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Mauritius Christina Chan-Meetoo has published on press freedom, media regulation, new media, gender-sensitive reporting, and language and culture. She is also a scientific collaborator on research projects related to Mauritian Creole and Rodriguan Creole. She writes at: www.christinameetoo.com
Professor of Supply Chain Management, University of Leeds Chee Wong is a professor of supply chain management at Leeds University Business School. Prior to this, he held a chair in logistics and supply chain management at Hull University Business School. He teaches logistics, supply chain and operations management at undergraduate, MSc, MBA, PhD and executive levels. He has also more than nine years of industrial working and consultancy experience in operations, purchasing, production, inventory and distribution management and supply chain design with SMEs and multinational companies specialised in beverage, retail, consumer goods, toys, engineering, metal production, and polymer distribution. His research interests lie in the areas of supply chain integration, digital supply chain, supply chain analytics, green supply chain. He has published more than 70 academic and practitioner articles, including high quality journals such as Journal of Operations Management (JOM), International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM), Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM), International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE), Supply Chain Management: an International Journal (SCMIJ), Production Planning and Control (PPC), International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (IJPDLM), etc.
Assistant professor, Education, University of Toronto Chandni Desai is an Assistant Professor in the Critical Studies of Equity and Solidarity at the University of Toronto (with a graduate appointment to Women and Gender Studies). Her areas of research, teaching and supervision include: comparative settler colonialisms, Palestine studies, the politics of the Middle East, state violence (carceral politics, militarism and war), cultures of resistance and revolution, political economy, third world internationalism, solidarity, memory, oral history, anti-racism and feminism. Dr. Desai is working on her first book Revolutionary Circuits of Liberation: The Radical Tradition of Palestinian Resistance Culture and Internationalism. In it she excavates the history of the radical tradition of Palestinian resistance culture, specifically the cultural institutions, archives and radical arts practices established by Palestinian revolutionaries in the PLO. She maps the circulation of resistance culture across geographies in the 20th and 21st century; unearths the legacy of anti-colonial and internationalist cultural production, thought, consciousness and praxis against settler colonial dispossession, imperialism, warfare and genocide; and attempts to trace displaced, lost, stolen and captive Palestinian material culture. Dr. Desai is the principal investigator on a Social Science and Humanities and Research Council Insight Development Grant (SSHRC IDG) for her project “Transnational Cultural Solidarities: Afro-Asian Pasts, Present and Futures” (2021-2023). In 2020 her research on “Tracing Legacies: Afro-Asian Transnationalism during Third World Decolonization and the Cold War”was selected for the Jackman Humanities Scholars in Residence. Dr. Desai hosts the Liberation Pedagogy Podcast, a site to learn about the praxis of political struggle, revolution and internationalism in the quest towards freedom making. Another pedagogical innovation she is currently working on is teaching with anti-colonial archives (with Dr. Rafeef Ziadah). Desai was the receipt of the 2019-2020 June Larkin Pedagogy Award for her work on liberation pedagogies, the 2021 Ragini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award and CCGSE Mentorship Award.
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet Dr. Göritz studied Biochemistry at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. He performed his PhD studies in Strasbourg, France, in a joint Max Planck / CNRS research environment in the field of Neuroscience. For his postdoctoral training, he joined the lab of Prof. Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. In 2012 he established his own research group at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Göritz investigates the physiological and pathological function of perivascular cells. The main focus of his research has been fibrosis and tissue repair following lesions to the central nervous system. In his latest research he addressed the physiological role of perivascular fibroblasts in the context of penile erection.
