Professor of English and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of North Dakota Randi Lynn Tanglen, Ph.D., is a higher education leader and scholar of 19th-century American literature and western American literary and cultural studies. She served as professor of English at Austin College in Texas (2008-2020), executive director of Humanities Montana (2020-2022), and is currently vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of North Dakota (2023-present). She holds degrees from Rocky Mountain College (B.A.), the University of Montana (M.A.), and the University of Arizona (Ph.D.).
Clinical Professor of Law, Suffolk University Over the past twenty years, I have directed a law school clinic focused on representing immigrants facing deportation. Over this time, the clinic's work has ranged from representing immigrants with criminal convictions, to people applying for asylum, to state and federal level advocacy with national immigrants' rights groups. In the past 7-10 years, I have increasingly incorporated support for community organizations into the clinic that has allowed students to explore what abolition means in the immigration context, and what it looks like to support that work as a lawyer. This work has led to more and more interaction with people who lack formal legal claims to immigration status but are organizing for change nonetheless. Those interactions informed the research for my forthcoming book, which explores migration from the perspective of communities of origin in Mexico and the relationship between the U.S. political economy and migration, immigration enforcement and remittance to development programs. Like the work in the U.S., the research in Mexico led me to organizing efforts that seek to improve conditions in Mexican communities, including two distinct indigenous communities, in different parts of Mexico.
PhD candidate, School of Medicine, The University of Melbourne Ray Kelly is a proud Gamilaroi man and one of Australia’s leading health professionals, with over 33 years’ experience in the health and sports industries. He is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and with a Master of Teaching (PDHPE) and a Bachelor of Research where he focused on the reversal of type 2 diabetes in the Indigenous community. He is currently leading an MRFF funded study looking into the impact of lifestye programs and continuous glucose monitors on HbA1c for Aboriginal people living with type 2 diabetes. Currently, Ray provides research-based training and education to GPs, nurses, and other health professionals working in Aboriginal health services. He then provides support as they embed these changes within their current treatments. This had led to decreases in blood pressure, HbA1c and the co-morbidities associated with these conditions. Often, patients also see a reduction in medications. Ray also co-hosted the 3-part series on remission of type 2 diabetes alongside Dr Michael Mosley for SBS.
Research Assistant, Forensic Linguistics, Aston University My primary research area focuses on combatting extremism and online hate crime, and contributing to the area of authorship analysis. I work on this by incorporating methodologies involving discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and pragmatics. Working as a Research Assistant for the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, I am dedicated to the application of effective approaches that can be used to address current and emerging linguistic challenges; improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language.
Professor of Politics, Drexel University Richardson Dilworth is a professor of politics and head of the Department of Politics at Drexel University. Dilworth’s research and teaching focuses on American urban political development, urban environmental policy, and community economic development. He is the author or coauthor of numerous essays and articles, author of the book, The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (2005), and the editor or co-editor of seven books, one of the more recent being, with Christine Palus, The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States (2016). Besides Drexel, he has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Temple University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Wagner College, the University of Tirana in Albania, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Dilworth has held visiting positions at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and he served on the Philadelphia Historical Commission for eight years. He received his Bachelor of Science in economics from New York University, and his doctoral degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University. Dilworth lives in South Philadelphia with his wife, daughter, and son.
Faculty, Epidemiology Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley Dr. Rohini Haar is an emergency medicine physician and faculty in the Division of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. She also serves as research fellow and lecturer at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley and medical advisor at Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Haar’s research interests include studying the health impacts of torture, violations of free speech and assembly, and conflict. She leads studies on the impact of violence against health in humanitarian settings, the health impacts of crowd control weapons and the social, economic and health consequences of climate-related crises in California.
