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Sonja Klinsky

Professor at the School of Sustainability and a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

Arizona State University (ASU)

Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Justice and Sustainability, Public Policy, Sustainability

Sonja Klinsky is an expert in economic adaptation and climate change, sustainability and public policy.

She is an associate professor at the School of Sustainability and a senior Global Futures scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.

Professor Klinsky has been an observer to the UN framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations since 2009 which has been a foundation to her work with policy-science interface organizations. 

Prior to her position at ASU, Klinsky held post-doctoral fellowships with the Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Cambridge, and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions in Vancouver, Canada.

Steven Polzin, PhD

Research Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Arizona State University (ASU)

transportation planning

Steven Polzen is an expert in transportation policy. 

Polzin is a research professor whose interests cover a broad spectrum of transportation policy analysis. His current research focuses on the changes in travel behavior and consequences of COVID-19 on travel. He is a member of the TOMNET University Transportation Center at ASU.

He previously served as the senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation. 

He has conducted research for clients at all levels of government and in the private sector. He has extensive experience with public and private decision makers, public and private stakeholders, the media, and students.

Lucy Berthoud, PhD in Space Physics

Professor of Space Systems Engineering

University of Bristol

Asteroids, Engineering Education, MARS, Satellites, Space, Space Exploration, Space Missions, Spacecraft

Professor Lucy Berthoud researches technology for travelling to and living on the planet Mars, as well as sample return missions to planets, comets and asteroids. She teaches spacecraft design at the University of Bristol.

Lucy is advancing the excellence of space education in the UK. She has set up and co-chaired a UK-wide Teaching and Learning network for Space Engineering and Science HE staff: the Space Universities Network (SUN). SUN brings together university teachers and researchers from across the country to share ideas and enhance student space education. This organisation has a national profile and allows universities to share ideas, case studies, guest speakers and other resources. Together, members have prepared a response to government questions on Brexit, consulted with industry to see what skills are sought from graduates and lobbied satellite licensing authorities for better terms for universities. Lucy believes that by pooling resources and working together, UK universities can help their students to reach for the stars.

Lucy works part-time for the UK spacecraft manufacturer Thales Alenia Space, where she works on future space mission concepts. She has presented a TEDx talk on Life on Mars and been chosen by students as one of the 鈥楤est of Bristol鈥 lecturers.

Lucy holds a Master's in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Space Physics from Sup'Aero/ONERA (French National Research Organisation) in Toulouse, France.

She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was awarded a University of Bristol Teaching Fellowship in 2016.

Her previous research projects have included:

- MBSE for early design of spacecraft missions.
- Radiation modelling of Martian Habitats.
- Volcano plume detection via CubeSat.
- Designing a deployment device for 50+ CubeSats.
- Selecting an asteroid for mining.
- Thermal and power design for a Ganymede Penetrator Probe.
- Thermal design for a Europa Penetrator Probe.
- Ultra low altitude SAR microsat.
- Ultra low altitude hyperspectral imager and SAR microsatellites.

Accomplishments:

2015 - Voted by students 鈥楤est of Bristol鈥 lecturer
2018 - Nominated by students for an Outstanding Teaching Award in Engineering
2019 - National Teaching Fellowship

You can find out more about Lucy on her University profile at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Lucy-Berthoud-d29400ff-6007-4674-a40c-9d63e790604a/

Lucy has a profile on Research Gate at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucy-Berthoud

Lucy can be found on Twitter at @lucy_berthoud.

Daniel Bodansky, JD

Regents' Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Arizona State University (ASU)

Climate Change, Environmental Law, International Law

Daniel Bodansky is an expert in climate change, international law, and environmental and sustainability law.

He is a regents' professor of law in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Law, Science and Innovation and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability's School of Sustainability at ASU.

Professor Bodansky's research focuses on public international law, international environmental law, climate change law and legal theory.

Prior to his position at ASU, Bodansky has served as the Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State and has consulted for the United Nations in the areas of climate change and tobacco control.

Karen Bradshaw, JD

Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Arizona State University (ASU)

Environmental Justice, Environmental Law, Science Writing, Sustainability

Karen Bradshaw is an expert on environmental law, wildlife advocacy and natural resources law.

Bradshaw is a professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and is frequently mentioned in the mainstream media as a reliable source. Her articles have been recognized, through a peer-reviewed process, as the top articles in the field of environmental law, administrative law, land-use law and natural resources law. 

Her book, "The New Animal Rights: How Uncovering the Biological Origins of Property Can Save America's Wildlife," advocates for giving wildlife the right to own land to preserve biodiversity. 

Efrem Lim, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences

Arizona State University (ASU)

Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Coronavirus, human microbiome, Microbiology, Viruses

Efrem Lim is an expert in viruses, biomedicine, microbiology and molecular biology.

He is a virologist and an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences, and the Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics.

Lim's research focuses on viromes, microbiomes and the SARS-CoV-2 viral strain.

Professor Lim created the "Lim Lab" at ASU which integrates molecular virology and bioinformatics approaches in clinical cohorts.

Valena Beety, JD

Professor of Law, Sandra Day O鈥機onnor College of Law

Arizona State University (ASU)

Criminal Justice, criminal law, Gender Studies, Prison

Valena Beety's areas of expertise include criminal law, criminal justice, LGBTQ, gender studies, wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, prosecutors and prison.

She is a professor of law at the Sandra Day O鈥機onnor College of Law at Arizona State University and the deputy director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center connecting research with policy reform.

Professor Beety is the author of "Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights" and the co-editor of the "Wrongful Convictions Reader" and the "Scientific Evidence Treatise."

She has been featured in local and national publications such as the New York Times and USA Today.

Raymond Schuck, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Bowling Green State University

Pop Culture

Dr. Raymond Shuck is an associate professor of communication at Bowling Green State University Firelands in Huron, Ohio. His research focuses on the intersections of culture and communication and the critical and rhetorical analysis of various forms of popular culture. Most notably, Shuck and his father, a history professor, have explored the intricacies of the popular ballad 鈥淎merican Pie鈥 and its role as a parable of troubled times. The duo published a book in 2012 titled 鈥淒o You Believe in Rock and Roll,鈥 a collection of eight scholarly essays that serves as a creative dissection and exploration of rocker Don McLean's cryptic lyrics. Schuck holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Arizona State University.

Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, JD

Clinical Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law

Arizona State University (ASU)

Election Law, Indian Law

Patty Ferguson-Bohnee is an expert in Indian law, election law and policy matters, voting rights and status clarification of tribes. 

She has represented tribal clients in administrative, state, federal, and tribal courts, as well as before state and local governing bodies and proposed revisions to the Real Estate Disclosure Reports to include tribal provisions. She has assisted in complex voting rights litigation on behalf of tribes, and she has drafted state legislative and congressional testimony on behalf of tribes with respect to voting rights鈥 issues.

Ferguson-Bohnee is an expert in Indian law, election law and policy matters, voting rights and status clarification of tribes.

She has also testified before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Louisiana State Legislature regarding tribal recognition, and has successfully assisted four Louisiana tribes in obtaining state recognition.

Rogier Windhorst, PhD

Regents Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration

Arizona State University (ASU)

Astronomy, Astrophysics, Energy

Rogier Windhorst is an expert in astronomy, astrophysics, and dark energy and matter.

Windhorst is a regents professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Windhorst's research focuses on astronomy, cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmic dark ages, the epoch of First Light, and astronomical instrumentation. 

He is a co-investigator and interdisciplinary scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), the largest, most powerful and complex space science telescope ever built. The mission led by NASA, will serve as the premier deep space observatory for the next decade, exploring every phase of cosmic history 鈥 from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, and everything in between.

Education, Emotional Development, Emotions, Fake news

Dr. Christy Galletta Horner is an associate professor in the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy in the Bowling Green State University College of Education and Human Development. Her research focuses on the role of emotional culture in the promotion of healthy individual and social functioning. Viewing emotions as sociocultural in nature, Galletta Horner prioritizes participants' perspectives while also seeking to uncover quantifiable links between emotion-related constructs and developmental outcomes. She also uses mixed-methods designs and creative methodological approaches to address the challenges involved in this line of inquiry. Galletta Horner aims to find ways emotional transactions can be leveraged in settings such as schools, after school programs, and social media sites to help individuals thrive in their environments. Galletta Horner holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Patrick Woods, JD

Deputy Director of Government Law Center

Albany Law School

Appellate, Appellate Courts, New York State

Woods was Assistant Solicitor General in the Albany office of the Appeals and Opinions Bureau of the Office of the New York State Attorney General. He primarily briefed and argued appeals on behalf of the State of New York in the New York Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Third and Fourth Departments of the Appellate Division.

Before joining the Attorney General鈥檚 office, he was the 2015-2016 Supreme Court Fellow placed with the United States Sentencing Commission. During his fellowship, Woods worked with Commission policy teams to evaluate and recommend amendments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines. That year he also researched and published a law review article evaluating a new measure for determining when federal offenders should receive enhanced punishment that was eventually included in the 2018 FIRST STEP Act. Prior to the Supreme Court Fellowship, Woods Clerked for the Honorable Peter W. Hall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Richard K. Eaton 鈥74, of the United States Court of International Trade.

While at Albany Law School as a student, Woods was valedictorian of his graduating class, Editor-in-Chief of the Albany Law Review, a Teaching Fellow for Federal Civil Procedure, an Executive Board Member of the moot court program, and interned for the Albany County District Attorney鈥檚 Office, New York State Supreme Court, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Woods鈥 undergraduate degree is in Philosophy. Before law school, he worked as a paralegal for a law firm specialising in customs and international trade law.

Woods has published on a variety of legal topics, as well as in a peer-reviewed philosophy journal, and his work has been cited in treatises such as New York Jurisprudence, 2d.

Hon. Leslie Stein, JD

Director of Government Law Center

Albany Law School

Court Of Appeals, Courts, Government, New York State

The Honorable Leslie E. Stein 鈥81, who retired as an Associate Judge on the New York Court of Appeals in June 2022, is the new Director of the Government Law Center (GLC) at Albany Law School.

Stein received her B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and her J.D. from Albany Law School in 1981, graduating Magna Cum Laude. 

After graduating from Albany Law, Stein began her legal career as the law clerk to the Schenectady County Family Court Judges. She practiced matrimonial and family law with the Albany law firm of McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, P.C. where she made partner. During that time, Stein was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. In 1997, she left private practice to begin her judicial career as an Albany City Court Judge and Acting Albany County Family Court Judge. She was elected to the New York State Supreme Court, Third Judicial District for a term commencing in January 2002. She served as the Administrative Judge of the Rensselaer County Integrated Domestic Violence Part from January 2006 until February 2008, when she was appointed a Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, Third Department. In October 2014, Judge Stein was nominated by former Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve as an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals and her nomination was confirmed by the New York State Senate on February 9, 2015.

Stein is a past co-chair of the NYS Unified Court System Family Violence Task Force. She was a founding member of the New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law and chaired the Third Judicial District Gender Fairness Committee from 2001 to 2005. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, as an officer of the New York State Association of City Court Judges, and as a member of the Board of the New York Association of Women Judges. Stein has lectured and developed curricula for continuing legal education of attorneys and judges on multiple topics. She has a long history of involvement in various state and local bar associations and in a number of other professional and civic organizations.

She served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the law school from 2012 until 2021, when she stepped down to become the Director of the GLC. 

Bryan Cunningham

Executive Director, UCI Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute

University of California, Irvine

Computing, Cyberattack, Cybersecurity, Informatics, Technology

As the founding executive director of UCI鈥檚 multidisciplinary Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, Bryan Cunningham is focused on solution-oriented strategies that address technical, legal and policy challenges to combat cyber threats; protect individual privacy and civil liberties; maintain public safety, economic and national security; and empower Americans to take better control of their digital security. 

Cunningham is a leading international expert on cybersecurity law and policy, a former White House lawyer and adviser and a media commentator on cybersecurity, technology and surveillance issues. He has appeared on ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, FOX and other networks. 

Cunningham has extensive experience in senior U.S. government intelligence and law enforcement positions. He served as Deputy Legal Adviser to then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He also served six years in the Clinton administration as a senior CIA officer and federal prosecutor. He drafted significant portions of the Homeland Security Act and related legislation, helping to shepherd them through Congress. He was a principal contributor to the first National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, worked closely with the 9/11 Commission and provided legal advice to the President, National Security Advisor, the National Security Council, and other senior government officials on intelligence, terrorism, cyber security and other related matters.

Cunningham is a founding partner of the Washington, DC-Los Angeles firm Cunningham Levy Muse, and his law practice has included assisting Fortune 500 and multinational companies to comply with complex legal regulations under U.S. federal law, myriad state laws and the numerous privacy and security requirements in the European Union and other overseas jurisdictions. 

He was founding vice-chair of the American Bar Association Cyber Security Privacy Task Force and was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for his work on information issues. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Biodefense Analysis, the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and the Bipartisan Policy Center鈥檚 Cyber Security Task Force. He is also the principal author of legal and ethics chapters in several cybersecurity textbooks.

Jennifer Martin, PhD

President of the AASM Board of Directors and professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)

Geriatrics, Insomnia, Sleep

Jennifer L. Martin, PhD, serves as president of the board of directors for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and is board-certified in behavioral sleep medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM). She is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr. Martin has expertise in insomnia and geriatrics. She completed her clinical internship at Brown University and her post-doctoral fellowship in geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Martin received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, San Diego, as part of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program.

Antonia Villarruel, PhD

Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Community Health, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Health Policy, Sexual Health, Social determinants of health

Antonia M. Villarruel, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Director of the School鈥檚 WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership.

As a bilingual and bicultural nurse researcher, Dr. Villarruel has extensive research and practice experience with diverse Latino and Mexican populations and communities, and health promotion and health disparities research and practice both here and abroad. She incorporates a community-based participatory approach to her research. Specifically, her research focuses on the development and testing of interventions to reduce sexual risk behaviors among Mexican and Latino youth. As part of this program of research, she developed an efficacious program to reduce sexual risk behavior among Latino youth 鈥 entitled Cu铆date! which was disseminated nationally.

Dr. Villarruel serves in such national leadership roles as chair of the IOM Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and co-chair of the Strategic Advisory Council of the AARP/RWJ Center for Health Policy Future of Nursing Campaign for Action. She is an invited member of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Aspen Health Strategy Group as well as an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academy of Medicine. She is the recipient of the President鈥檚 Award for Health Behavior Intervention Research from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research; an inducted member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame; was named one of NBC鈥檚 Latino20; and received the Al Dia 麻豆传媒 Media鈥檚 Hispanic Heritage Award for leadership in Pennsylvania.

Disinformation, Information Studies, Russia, Ukraine

Haigh is an expert in disinformation campaigns. She is from Ukraine and can talk about how Russia is using disinformation in the war there. She can also talk about what is happening on the ground in Ukraine since she is in regular contact with friends there and monitoring media.

Political Economy, Political Science, Polls, Russia, Russia-Ukraine, Russian politics, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Reuter can discuss topics including: Russian domestic politics and public opinion. Reuter and colleagues and have been doing polling in Russia about the conflict. Reuter has been a senior researcher at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow since 2011.

Braden Allenby, PhD, JD

Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics and Founding Director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management

Arizona State University (ASU)

Department Of Defense, Emerging Technologies, Ethics, military technology, National Security, Sustainability, Urban, War

Brad Allenby is an environmental engineer who studies industrial ecology, sustainable engineering, earth systems engineering and management, and emerging technologies. 

Allenby is a Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and President's Professor of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering and professor of law. He is the founding director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management, and the founding chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security. Allenby is also the co-chair of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative of the Center for the Future of War. 

He is a past president of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and a former director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

History, Religion, Religious Studies, Russia

Nadieszda Kizenko researches and teaches Russian history, with a focus on religion and culture. She explores the history of Orthodox Christianity, saints鈥 lives as a historical source, lived religion, political liturgy, women鈥檚 written confessions, and depictions of religion in film. Her first book, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Penn State University Press, 2000) examined the cult of a charismatic priest whose cult spanned the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A Russian edition appeared as 鈥溞⌒惭徰傂拘 袧邪褕械谐芯 袙褉械屑械薪懈: 芯. 袠芯邪薪薪 袣褉芯薪褕褌邪写褌褋泻懈泄 懈 褉褍褋褋泻懈泄 薪邪褉芯写禄 (Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006). Her history of confession in Russia spanning four centuries, Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire, was published with Oxford University  Press in 2021 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/good-for-the-souls-9780192896797?). She has now begun a new project exploring the intersection of women, devotional practice, and writing.

Prof. Kizenko's courses and seminars cover Russian history, East European history, religion and film, and European history in general. Recent dissertations supervised by Prof. Kizenko include:  鈥淪cience and Culture on the Soviet Screen: Russian and Member Republic Biographical Films during the Early Cold War, 1946-1953,鈥 鈥淧romiscuous Pioneers of Morality: The Code of Ethics of a Secret Service Functionary in Communist Poland as Set by Law and Practice, 1944鈥1989,鈥 "Sacrifice in the Name of Sacred Duty: The Representation of the Decembrist Wives in Russian Culture, 1825-Present," and "Striving for Salvation: Margaret Anna Cusack, Sainthood, Religious Foundations and Revolution in Ireland, 1830-1922.鈥
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