Associate Professor of Social Studies Education, University of North Texas Daniel G. Krutka is a former high school social studies teacher who is now Associate Professor of Social Studies Education and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education & Administration at the University of North Texas. He researches intersections of technology, democracy, and social studies education. He has over 75 publications in prestigious journals such as Teachers College Record, Computers & Education, and Theory & Research in Social Education. He is co-editor for the Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE)—Social Studies journal, hosts the Visions of Education podcast, and is founder of the Civics of Technology project (https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/). In his teaching, he critically inquires alongside students for just, multiracial, and technoethical democracy.
Professor of Microbiology, University of Sydney BSc (Hons) from University of Otago, New Zealand. PhD and Diploma of Imperial College from Imperial College London, UK 2 year IMSERM Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculte de Medicine, Montpellier, France. 2 year NIAID Postdoctoral Fellowship at Roche Molecular Systems, Alameda, CA, USA. 28 years as an academic at the University of Sydney, with a focus on fungal pathogens and treatment strategies.
Suicide Prevention, Macquarie University Dameyon is of the Jawoyn peoples from the Mangarrayi of the Mataranka region (NT) and the Bari Clan of the western island group Kala Lagaw Ya, called the Wagedagam on Mabuiag Island (TSI). Our totem is the saltwater crocodile. Dameyon is a gay male, and his pronouns are he/him. He is recognised as an Indigenous suicide prevention subject matter expert, specifically in Indigenous LGBTQIA suicide prevention. Dameyon has extensive experience working in and with remote Indigenous communities in suicide prevention and is the founder of Black Rainbow, Australia’s first and only national Indigenous LGBTIQA suicide prevention charity organisation. He holds a post-graduate qualification in Suicidology and is currently undertaking his final year of the Master of Suicidology by research. Dameyon’s work has been the catalyst for three Indigenous LGBTQIA suicide prevention research studies underway in Australia. He currently leads a co-design project with Indigenous LGBTQIA young people in the NT to create safer homes and communities. In 2016 he designed and developed the first workforce development Indigenous LGBTQIA Inclusive Practices in Mental Health and Suicide Prevention workshop, and has delivered it to over 500 people in remote, regional, and urban Australia. Dameyon is an independent suicide prevention practitioner in his hometown of Darwin in the NT, Australia.
Paediatric Respiratory Physician, and Honorary Fellow Manager, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Dr Danielle Wurzel is a paediatric respiratory physician. She currently has appointments as a Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Honorary Senior Fellow in Paediatrics at the University of Medicine and Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Her clinical interests include a broad range of respiratory problems with a special interest in childhood cough, breathing difficulties and asthma. Danielle has a PhD in chronic wet cough in children and bronchiectasis with an ongoing research program to investigate the early origins of bronchiectasis with the aim of developing interventions to prevent chronic lung diseases in children.
Professor of Urban Planning and Design, University of Cincinnati Danilo Palazzo is a Professor and Director of the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. Before moving to Cincinnati, he served on the faculty at the Polytechnic of Milan. Italy as a program coordinator for the Master of Architectural Engineering. He earned an M.Arch from the Polytechnic of Milan and a Ph.D. in Planning from IUAV Venezia. Dr. Palazzo has been a visiting scholar at the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University (1995), the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati (1997 and 1998), Polytechnic of Milan (2021), and Visiting Professor at the School of Design, Jiangnan University, PRC (2019). His current research interests are urbanism, urban design, and pedagogy. Dr. Palazzo co-authored with Frederick Steiner, Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places (Island Press, 2011, also translated in Chinese—Yilin Press, Nanjing, 2018—and in Farsi—Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Press, 2023), and authored a chapter on "Pedagogical Tradition" to the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011). He’s the co-editor, with Vikas Mehta, of the Companion to Public Space (Routledge, 2020) and with Leah Hollstein and Stephen Diko (eds.), of the Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education (Routledge, 2023.)
