Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California Holly Willis is the Chair of the Media Arts + Practice Division in USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she teaches classes on digital media, post-cinema and feminist film. She co-leads USC's Center for Generative AI and Society, which aims to create a space for artists, writers, journalists and others in the humanities to engage both creatively and critically with emerging forms of AI. She is the author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts and New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image, as well of Björk Digital, and the editor of both The New Ecology of Things, a collection of essays about ubiquitous computing, and David O. Russell: Interviews. She is also the co-founder of Filmmaker Magazine dedicated to independent film; she served as editor of RES Magazine and co-curator of RESFEST, a festival of experimental media, for several years; and she writes frequently for diverse publications about experimental film, video and new media, while also exploring experimental nonfiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in publications such as Film Comment, Afterimage, Los Angeles Review of Books, Variety, River Teeth and carte blanche.
Research Associate in Women's Health, Wayne State University While completing her master's degree, Hala discovered her passion for the vast world of academic and clinical medicine with its endless opportunities. She then graduated with an MD from the American University of Beirut whereby she realized that Women’s health was her primary passion. Thus, she moved to Detroit to join the Office of Women’s Health as a Research Associate with an interest to grow her passion in an environment serving to advance the health and wellbeing of Women and girls. Hala’s responsibilities at the Office of Women’s Health are distributed over three main pillars: • Research& Development: Hala coordinates multiple research projects conducted at the Office of Women’s Health including a statewide research network. • Education & Leadership: Under this pillar, Hala works closely with medical students at Wayne State University to improve their leadership skills through overseeing the Trailblazer Fellowship. Moreover, she organizes the Women's Health Scholarly Concentration for Wayne School of Medicine whereby medical students have an opportunity to participate in research projects on women’s health. • Implementation Science: Hala coordinates the Well Women's Wednesdays program which is a mobile unit focused on women’s health. She is also involved in the unique Make Your Date campaign aimed at reducing the rate of preterm birth. Hala ultimately aims to pursue residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology and follow her dream of having a long-life career of caring for and empowering women of all ages.
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Durham University Harriet studied English and Related Literature (BA) and Medieval Studies (MA) at the University of York. After completing her dissertation on Old Norse literature, she continued her association with the Centre for Medieval Studies, studying with Dr Matthew Townend and Dr Steve Ashby for her PhD on animal-human relationships in Viking-age and medieval Iceland. Post-PhD, Harriet worked on a number of projects, including a research assistant post on the Melting Pot project, and continued teaching Old Norse and medieval literature for the Department of English and Related Literature at York. Harriet is currently working on the Leverhulme-funded project: COHABITing with Vikings: Social space in multi-species communities with Dr Karen Milek and Loïc Harrault.
Associate Professor of Public Policy, UMass Boston Heather MacIndoe is an Associate Professor of Public Policy in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Before joining the McCormack School, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy, and a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Hauser Center for the Study of Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government. MacIndoe earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2007, and a master’s degree in Sociology from Stanford University. Her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College was in Economics and American Studies. Dr. MacIndoe’s research applies theoretical frameworks from organizational and urban sociology to address questions concerning the social organization of the nonprofit sector. Her current research focuses on nonprofit advocacy and policy engagement. She has conducted studies of nonprofit advocacy at the local, state, and federal levels. Other research examines foundation philanthropy and spatial relationships in the nonprofit sector. Her research has appeared in journals such as American Journal of Sociology and Sociological Forum, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Nonprofit Policy Forum. Dr. MacIndoe is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Review. She also served as an editorial board member for City and Community. MacIndoe serves on the fiduciary board for Boston Cares, the largest volunteer service agency in New England and was previously appointed as a commissioner to the City of Somerville Commission for Women.
Indigenous Teacher and Linguist, Indigenous Knowledge Hilda Ngalmi is an Indigenous teacher-linguist and president of the school council at Numbulwar School.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester I'm a postdoctoral research associate working in the Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience at The University of Manchester. I research hearing loss in people with dementia living in care homes and in the community. Currently, I am investigating how common hearing loss is in people with dementia and how accessible hearing assessments and audiology services are for people with dementia. Prior to this, I completed my PhD on hearing loss within care homes and how to improve hearing care provided to residents with dementia. I worked with Rebecca Millman, Piers Dawes, Christopher Armitage and Iracema Leroi on this project. I have a degree in Psychology and previously worked in care homes as a care assistant.
