Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Dr Dana Olstad is a Registered Dietitian and an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. Her research program investigates the impact of policy on socioeconomic inequities in diet quality and health. She is currently leading several randomized controlled trials to examine the impact of healthy food subsidies on the dietary patterns, food insecurity risk and mental and physical health of adults with low incomes.
Ph.D. Candidate in Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles Dakotah Tyler went from Division I college football at the University of Kentucky to studying the other worlds in our galaxy. After an injury, Dakotah transitioned to academia, starting at a community college and eventually becoming a graduate student at UCLA where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. Dakotah's research focuses on exoplanets - planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. Dakotah studies how these planets come to be and how they evolve time. He is also a passionate science communicator and public educator that values fostering excitement about our universe to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
Digital Health Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Dr Debbie Passey is a Research Fellow with the University of Melbourne's Digital Health Validitron Simulation Lab, a collaborative research platform that supports the design, testing and evaluation of digital health solutions.
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast My chief research area is sports journalism, with an emphasis on its journalists, content, and social media. I am also interested in change in broader areas of journalism, media, and new media.
Senior Lecturer, Marketing, University of the Sunshine Coast I research and publish primarily in the field of services marketing, with a focus on the service experience of consumers and the resulting marketing implications connected to outcomes like well-being. I have a keen interest in working with industry partners and have worked collaboratively on funded projects with organisations such as the Australian Institute of Sport, Queensland Academy of Sport, Sunshine Coast Council and UniSport Australia. Professionally, I have worked internationally within the US in the marketing and public relations industries, before relocating to the Sunshine Coast.
Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University Danielle Brown, Ph.D. is the 1855 Community and Urban Journalism Professor and an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. She is also the founding director of the LIFT Project -- an engaged research effort aimed at identifying networks of trusted messengers in underrepresented communities in the Midwest to 1) understand their effects on civic and democratic life; 2) create, network, and allocate resources needed to inform communities better; and 3) build new opportunities for sustainable reparative narrative change. Dr. Brown's interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship utilizes the cross-sections of journalism, political science, and sociology. She specializes in analyses of media representations and narrative change, social movements and activism, and identity and political psychology. Dr. Brown has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals and media outlets. She has received multiple awards and recognition for her research and service record as an early-career scholar and pioneering public engagement work. Dr. Brown is an associate editor for the International Journal of Press/Politics. She previously served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University. Prior to joining the academy, she was a photojournalist, writer, and later a non-profit public relations professional.
