Contributors

Gary Edmond

Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney

Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales, and Chair, Evidence-based Forensics Initiative. Edmond specialises in expert evidence, forensic science and medicine evidence, and the relations between law and science.

Gerard Di Trolio

PhD candidate, Labour Studies, McMaster University

PhD candidate, Labour Studies, McMaster University I am a PhD candidate in Labour Studies at McMaster University under the supervision of Professor Stephanie Ross. My areas of expertise include gig worker organizing, union renewal and the politics of labour.

Gio Dolcecore

Assistant Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University

Assistant Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University Registered Clinical Social Worker. Registered Marriage and Family Therapist. Gender affirming care and mental health care. 2SLGBTQIA+. Equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

Godfried Asante

Assistant Professor, School of Communications, San Diego State University

Assistant Professor, School of Communications, San Diego State University As an educator, Dr. Asante believes he has a responsibility to prepare future and current students for the complex roles they will fulfill as parents, community leaders, politicians, and more. He views the classroom as an extension of the “real world” and not outside of it. Based on this belief, he engages his students in critical dialogues where they respectfully challenge each other’s ideas while thinking through local and global issues. An emphasis on critical dialogue is driven by his desire for community-engaged learning, where students critically examine social issues by working with community members. In this way, students see the learning process as not only confined to the classroom but as a collaborative process with their communities. Dr. Asante believes that SDSU stands to make significant contributions to changing this country’s future leaders and is excited to be a part of that legacy.

Giuseppina Fabbiano

Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Institution

Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Institution Giuseppina Fabbiano is Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a member of the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) | Harvard & Smithsonian, in Cambridge MA, USA. After completing her studies in Physics at the University of Palermo (Italy) in 1973, Fabbiano joined the group led by Riccardo Giacconi at the CfA that became the major center for X-ray Astronomy worldwide. She was a scientist in the data management teams of the NASA UHURU mission, the first X-ray astronomy satellite, and the HEAO-1/A3 mission. As project scientist for the Einstein Observatory, she was responsible for the data processing system, and was a key member of the successful proposing team for the NASA Chandra X-ray Center (CXC). Today, she is the Head of the CXC Data Systems Division, with oversight of the software, hardware and system groups, as well as the Chandra data processing and archive. Fabbiano is an active astrophysicist, with over 760 highly cited publications (280 refereed). She is a leader in the observational studies of populations of X-ray sources in galaxies, the hot interstellar medium, and the interaction between nuclear massive black holes and the host galaxy. She is the author of two invited reviews in the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Fabbiano is a co-author of the Smithsonian Institution Digitization Strategic Plan (for 2010-2015) and of the 2009 report of the US Interagency Working Group on Digital Data ‘Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society’. She chairs the US Virtual Observatory Alliance and is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) executive committee, which she chaired in 2016-2018. Fabbiano is a member of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Member and former Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics.

Guy Berger

Professor Emeritus, Rhodes University, Rhodes University

Professor Emeritus, Rhodes University, Rhodes University Guy Berger is Professor Emeritus, Rhodes University, South Africa; Distinguished Fellow Research ICT Africa; and DigiPol Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He spent 2011-2022 as a senior director at UNESCO, overseeing the organization's policy work in freedom of expression, safety of journalists, media development and digital governance. He is a media activist and public intellectual focusing on African issues. He posts at LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/guy-berger-b641b2/recent-activity/all/