Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Black Study in Education Lab, Penn State Wilson Kwamogi Okello (he/him) is an assistant professor of higher education at Penn State University, a research associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, and director of the Black Study in Education Lab. Dr. Okello is a transdisciplinary artist and scholar who is concerned with how Black critical approaches make visible the epistemic foundations that structure what it means to be human and imagining otherwise possibilities for Black being therein. Widely published, he is author of On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human: Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education (SUNY Press).
Clinical Research Fellow in Dermatology at King's College London/Consultant Dermatologist Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London PhD studying the skin microbiome in psoriasis and eczema at King's College London.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Journalism, Quinnipiac University Wasim Ahmad is an assistant teaching professor teaching journalism at Quinnipiac University. He's worked at newspapers in Minnesota, Florida and upstate New York, and has previously taught multimedia journalism at Stony Brook University and Syracuse University. Wasim also has photography industry experience, having previously worked as a technical specialist at Canon USA, and he is also a senior staff writer at Fstoppers.com. Wasim is a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communications at Syracuse University. His work has been recognized by the Freedom Forum and the Center for Innovation in College Media, but by far the award he's most proud of is the 2013 "Seniors' Choice" award for best professor in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University.
Associate Professor in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne Wonsun Shin is an Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines young people's use of digital media and the roles played by socialisation agents, including parents, peers and school teachers, in youth’s acquisition of knowledge and skills relevant to their functioning as media users and consumers.