Professor of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University Professor Sheryl Barringer is a Professor in Food Science and Technology at Ohio State. She holds a B.S. with Highest Honors in Food Science from the U of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Food Science and Nutrition from the U of Minnesota, where she was a USDA National Needs Fellow. She is an award winning teacher of fruit and vegetable processing, technical problem solving and chocolate science, being honored twice with the CFAES Outstanding Teaching Award in 2001 and 2005. Barringer is the Associate Editor for the Foods & Food Ingredients Journal of Japan and a member of key food professional organizations. Her outstanding research program in flavor volatiles, coatings, snack foods and fruit and vegetable processing earned several accolades including the 1997 OARDC Outstanding Research Award and the IFT 2004 Samuel Cate Prescott award. She is an elected Fellow of IFT and IUFOST based on her exemplary career.
Senior Researcher, South African Institute of International Affairs Dr Lauren Johnston holds a PhD in Economics from Peking University. She has expertise in and is widely published on the economics and political economy of China-Africa relations, the Belt and Road Initiative and how population ageing impacts China’s economy. Dr Johnston is concurrently an Associate Professor at the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney. She previously worked at the University of Melbourne, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the World Bank, and as an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Development and Economic Planning of Sierra Leone.
Susan S. Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, University of Wisconsin-Madison I have published over 100 articles and book chapters on education legal issues. I am the former past president of the Education Law Association and am currently an endowed chair at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Education. I am a faculty affiliate at the law school as well.
Ph.D. Student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Maggie Paino was previously the Director of Accountability for the Indiana Department of Education. In tht role, Maggie oversaw the implementation of federal, state, and district accountability requirements related to student achievement and educational outcomes. During her time as Director, Maggie focused her efforts to promote data literacy for stakeholders and to advance the topic of inequities in educational opportunities. Maggie previously served as Special Education Due Process Coordinator and Staff Attorney for the Department. Prior to her tenure at the Indiana Department of Education, Maggie worked as a teacher for DC Public Schools. She received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Indiana University Maurer School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Comparative Literature from Indiana University.
Assistant Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University Chris Lituma’s research interests focus on grassland and early-successional bird population ecology, landscape conservation ecology, and how conservation practices affect bird populations. He is also interested in understanding how continued human population expansion and the wildland-urban interface will affect the significance of private lands in avian conservation, as well as the full life-cycle conservation and understating avian population dynamics during migration and on wintering grounds. He earned his bachelor’s in biology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, a master’s in wildlife and fisheries sciences from Texas A&M University, and a doctorate in natural resources from the University of Tennessee.
Professor of Planetary Science, University of Arizona Vishnu Reddy is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Director of Space Safety, Security and Sustainability Center (Space 4 Center) at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Prior to serving as a faculty member at the UArizona, he was a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, from 2012-2016. Prof. Reddy served as the investigation team lead on NASA Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission to discover 90% of near-Earth objects (NEOs) larger than 140 meters to fulfill the George E. Brown Congressional mandate. He was a member on NASA’s Dawn mission working with the Framing Camera team at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. Since 2005, Prof. Reddy has been using the NASA IRTF on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to spectrally characterize small NEOs that make close flyby of the Earth. In addition to his work with NASA, Prof. Reddy is part of the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) program at the University of Arizona where he has developed a network of optical and RF sensors to characterize orbital debris and space objects in cislunar space for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
