Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Universidad de los Andes Natalia's areas of interest include the study of pre-Hispanic rock art and ceramics from the Caribbean and Orinoco regions, with an emphasis on archaeometric studies and indigenous technologies. She has also studied the representation of indigenous people in the New Granada region during the early colonial period, using ethnohistorical sources and colonial-era paintings.
PhD Student, University at Buffalo Tucker Reyes is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University at Buffalo. His research centers on law and culture and how this intersection shapes inequality. He has studied the historical progression of the welfare state and public assistance programs and the legal stigmatization of the “undeserving” versus the “deserving poor.” His current research examines the legal history of lending practices in the early twentieth-century U.S. He is also working on collaborative projects examining how at-risk youth conceptualize punishment and the degree to which sociodemographic factors influence social mobility and indebtedness across the life course.
Doctoral candidate in Philanthropic Leadership, Indiana University Nausheena Hussain, a social justice activist, is principal of Nissa Consulting, providing services to Muslim-led nonprofits and organizing Muslim philanthropy. Previously, she co-founded and served as the executive director emerita of Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment, a platform established in 2016 for Muslim women by Muslim women to raise up and celebrate their positive community impact. Nausheena is the former deputy director of the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and currently serves on the board of the St. Paul and Minnesota Foundation. She is co-founder and board secretary of the Brooklyn Park Islamic Center and co-founder of the Muslim Youth Leadership Award. Previously, Nausheena was a committee member of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice Community Innovation, Social Change Fund, and Wellspring Fund. She is a research fellow and candidate for a doctorate in philanthropic leadership at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University. Nausheena’s leadership has been recognized by the Bush Foundation, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, and the Minnesota Women’s Press.
Senior Research Fellow, School of Law and Policing, University of Central Lancashire Dr Noemi Procopio is the Principal Investigator of the "ForensOMICS" Team. Her main research involves the application of proteomics, metabolomics and DNA methylomics strategies to forensic science, particularly to skeletal remains, for post-mortem interval (PMI) and age-at-death estimation. Additionally, as part of her research she uses metabarcoding and NGS platforms for microbial and human DNA analyses, for human identification and PMI estimation. She is also investigating the application of proteomic analyses to archaeological human remains to investigate on lifestyles and health conditions of past populations.
Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University Nizar Bouguila is a Professor at the Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Nizar's research concentrates on machine learning, data mining, computer vision, and image processing.
Senior Research Fellow in Agroecology, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth My background is in agroecology and human geography. For the past 15 years I have worked in the Maya-Achí territory in Guatemala, researching traditional agriculture and community development, and accompanying farmers organisations working to restore agroecological practices and the local food system. My work here began as a human rights observer. I also belonged to a group of academics studying some of the problems that were developing from international projects in indigenous areas, including mining, hydroelectric schemes and other infrastructure. My master’s research concerned the displacement of indigenous people and violence committed against them. My interests soon led me towards farming and food systems. Through a university in Mexico called El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, I conducted my PhD investigating the motivations for adoption and maintaining agroecological practices in the Maya-Achi territory.
