Monica Aiello

Denver-based duo Monica and Tyler Aiello are award-winning artists and pioneering STEAM specialists recognized for their work uniting art, science, and engineering. For more than a decade, they have collaborated with NASA and the scientific community to create fine art and public practice initiatives that galvanize transdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement. As co-founders of Eurekus,... read more! »

Elizabeth Alter

Elizabeth Alter is an evolutionary geneticist, professor of biology at City University of New York (Graduate Center and York College), and Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on understanding how aquatic biodiversity is generated and maintained, particularly in extreme environments such as river rapids and toxic urban waters, using... read more! »

Amelia Amon

Amelia Amon is a solar designer with an aesthetic approach to integrating sustainable energy into the built environment. Her design company develops products and installations, including a solar awnings with architects, solar signage for wayfinding, dark-sky compliant solar LED lights for SolarOne Solutions, solar sculptural trackers for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), interpretive... read more! »

Suzanne Anker

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the... read more! »

Apkar Apkarian

Professor of Physiology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

“I am Professor of Physiology, Anesthesiology, and PM&R at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Over the past two decades my lab has been devoted to unravelling the brain mechanisms underlying chronic back pain (CBP), which has culminated in over 50 papers and a current clinical trial designed to arrest the development of CBP. In the... read more! »

Jill Bargonetti

Jill Bargonetti is a Full Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) at Hunter College and The Graduate Center in the PhD Programs of Biology and Biochemistry. In 2015 she joined the Cornell Medical Center Hunter College Belfer Research team as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 1997 she... read more! »

Ashley Bear

Dr. Ashley Bear is a Program Officer with the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this capacity, Dr. Bear manages a portfolio of projects dealing with critical issues in higher education. She is currently the study director for a National Academies consensus study tasked with... read more! »

Adrian Bejan

Adrian Bejan is the J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor at Duke University. His research is in applied physics, thermodynamics and the Constructal Law as the law of physics that governs organization and evolution in nature. He is the author of 30 books and over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles. In 2001 he was ranked among the... read more! »

Inna Belfer

Health Scientist Administrator/Project Officer
Office of Research on Women’s Health

Dr. Belfer is world-recognized expert in human pain genetics and assessement of clinical pain and pain-related traits. She started her career as a neurologist, and then got extensive training in neurobiology and human genetics. Since 2001, her primary interest has been the relationship between gene polymorphisms and complex phenotypes such as pain, psychiatric disorders, and... read more! »

Paul Boghossian

Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Director, Global Institute for Advanced Study, NYU

Paul Artin Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Director of its Global Institute for Advanced Study.  He earned a PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University and a B.Sc. in Physics from Trent University. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, his research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy... read more! »

Tega Brain

Tega Brain is an artist and environmental engineer making eccentric engineering. Her work intersects art, ecology and engineering, addressing the scope and politics of emerging technologies. It takes the form of site specific public works, dysfunctional devices, experimental infrastructures and information systems. Brain is a fellow at Data & Society and is an Assistant Professor... read more! »

Paul Browde

Psychiatrist, teaching faculty in the Department of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University

Paul Browde is a psychiatrist and teaching faculty in the Department of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. The ethical stance of Narrative therapy shapes his clinical work. He works with both individuals and couples exploring the relational space and the reciprocal relationship between listening and telling. Paul is co-creator and performer of Two Men Talking,... read more! »

Patricia Carlin

Patricia Carlin received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, focusing on Shakespeare studies, and poetry and poetics. Her most recent poetry collection, Second Nature, appeared in May 2017. Previous books include Quantum Jitters and Original Green, poetry collections, and Shakespeare’s Mortal Men, a study of Shakespeare’s plays in their cultural context. She has published widely in... read more! »

Edgar Choueiri

Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associated Faculty, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University

Professor Edgar Choueiri is Director of Princeton University’s Program in Engineering Physics, and Director of Princeton’s Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL). He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University. He... read more! »

Robin Collins

Professor Robin Collins is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (1993) and has graduate-level training in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written over forty-five substantial articles and book chapters in philosophy with some of... read more! »

Lisa DeBenedittis

Lisa DeBenedittis is an Assistant Professor of Design Research at Parsons School of Design, and most recently has served as Vice Provost of The New School, and Associate Dean at Parsons. She completed her Ph.D. (NYU) in 2005, writing on the aesthetics of subjectivity, and completed her analytic training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, now... read more! »

Elizabeth Demaray

Elizabeth Demaray is a fine artist whose research area is the interface between the built and the natural environment. Working in sculpture, digital media and eco-art, she designs listening stations for birds that play human music, cultures lichen on the sides of skyscrapers in New York City, and manufactures alternative forms of housing for hermit... read more! »

Simon Deng

Simon Aban Deng is a human rights activist living in the United States. A native of the Shilluk Kingdom in southern Sudan, he spent several years as a child slave until escaping and thereafter applying for asylum in the U.S. and taking U.S. citizenship. Among his many human rights activities, Deng launched the Sudan Freedom... read more! »

Anis Dizdarevic

Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center

Anis Dizdarevic MD is an assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He specializes in acute and chronic pain, causes, evolution and management. His particular interest is in pain prevention, minimally invasive pain management and mind-body remodeling and rehabilitation mechanisms. Dr. Dizdarevic received his medical degree and specialty training... read more! »

Evelina Fedorenko

Assistant Professor, Director of the EvLab at Harvard Medical School / Mass General Hospital

Ev Fedorenko is a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in the study of the human language system. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Linguistics from Harvard University in 2002. She then proceeded to pursue graduate studies in cognitive science and neuroscience at MIT. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2007, she was awarded a K99/R00 career... read more! »

Allen Fein

Professor, Department of Cell Biology, UConn Health

Alan Fein is a Professor of Cell Biology in the School of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Dr. Fein went to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole where he eventually became the Director of the Laboratory of Sensory Physiology. Dr.... read more! »

Stuart Firestein

Professor of Neuroscience. Columbia University
Former Chair of Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

Stuart Firestein is Professor of Neuroscience and former Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University.  His laboratory is one of the world’s leading laboratories on the neuroscience of our sense of smell.  He has published over 100 scientific papers in journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of... read more! »

Paul Fry

William Lampson Professor of English, Emeritus, Yale University

Paul H. Fry, BA Berkeley, Ph D Harvard, began teaching at Yale in 1971. His primary fields are British Romanticism, the History of Criticism, Literary Theory and Literature and Painting. He is also a painter and has written art criticism for Art News. The Poet’s Calling in the English Ode (1980) received the Melville Caine Award of the... read more! »

Alexis Gambis

Alexis Gambis is a filmmaker and a biologist whose interdisciplinary work aims at transforming the way science is communicated to the public through film and visual arts. His first feature film The Fly Room has toured festivals and academic institutions worldwide ending with a theatrical release in New York, Paris, and Berlin in the fall... read more! »

Daniel Goroff

Daniel L. Goroff is Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a grant-making philanthropy that supports breakthroughs in science, technology, and economics. He is also Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Economics at Claremont’s Harvey Mudd College, where he served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. Dr.... read more! »

Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton studied history, classics and history of science at the University of Chicago and University College London. He teaches European history at Princeton University, where he has worked since 1975. He has been a visiting professor at the Collège de France, the Louvre, the University of Munich, the Warburg Haus in Hamburg and Columbia... read more! »

William Grassie

William Grassie is an interdisciplinary scholar, academic entrepreneur, social activist, and author. Grassie received a B.A. in political science from Middlebury College and then worked for ten years on nuclear disarmament, citizen diplomacy, community organizing, and sustainability issues in Washington, D.C, Jerusalem, Philadelphia, and West Berlin. He completed a Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University, where... read more! »

David Grinspoon

David Grinspoon is an astrobiologist and prize-winning author. He is a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. His research focuses on climate evolution on Earth-like planets and potential conditions for life elsewhere in the universe. He is involved with several interplanetary spacecraft missions for NASA, the European Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency.... read more! »

Daniel Grushkin

Daniel Grushkin is co-founder and Executive Director of Genspace. He is also the founder of the Biodesign Challenge. Daniel is a Fellow at Data & Society. From 2013-2014, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he researched synthetic biology. He was an Emerging Leader in Biosecurity at the UPMC... read more! »

Uri Hasson

Professor, Neuroscience & Psychology, Princeton University

Uri Hasson is a distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Princeton University. He was raised in Jerusalem and earned his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Hebrew University. Dr. Hasson obtained his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the Weizmann Institute in Israel and later served as a postdoctoral fellow at New York University before joining... read more! »

Daniel Hill

Daniel Hill is an abstract painter and sound artist whose work has been included in numerous exhibitions exploring the relationship between painting, sound, and science. Recent exhibitions include: Brattleboro Museum of Art (2016/17), NurtureArt (2016/17), Holland Tunnel Gallery- Greece (2016), Pace University (2015), Margret Thatcher Projects (2014), and McKenzie Fine Art (2012, 2013). Collections that... read more! »

Erik Hoel

Erik Hoel received his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. His family owns Jabberwocky Books, an independent bookstore anchored for more than 40 years in Newburyport MA. He is the co-founder of YHouse, a non-profit here in New York City that hosts events which... read more! »

Amy Holman

Amy Holman is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and a literary consultant. Her collection, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window was described by one reviewer as “part freak show, part searing insight”. She is also the author of four poetry chapbooks, including the prizewinning Wait For Me, I’m Gone, from Dream Horse Press. Her poems... read more! »

Noah Hutton

Noah Hutton is a film director and founder of the website The Beautiful Brain. He has presented on art and neuroscience at the Venice Biennale, Impakt Festival, Society for Neuroscience, Wellcome Collection, Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere. In 2015 he was named a Salzburg Global Fellow in Neuroscience & Art, and created Brain City,... read more! »

Karen Ingram

​Karen Ingram is a creative director, designer, and artist who uses her skill set to promote scientific awareness. As a Synthetic Biology LEAP fellow, she is recognized as an emerging leader in synthetic biology. Karen co-authored “Biobuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab” (O’Reilly, 2015), a synbio curriculum in which she crafted visual elements. Since 2012... read more! »

Paolo Javier

PAOLO JAVIER’s collaboration with Listening Center (David Mason) appeared as a limited edition book/cassette, Ur’lyeh/Aklopolis, published by Texte und Töne in early 2017. A featured artist in MoMA PS1’s 2015 Greater NY Show, he is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, including Court of the Dragon (Nightboat Books 2015), which Publisher’s Weekly calls “a linguistic time machine”. A new chapbook, Maybe the... read more! »

Natalie Jeremijenko

​In 2014 VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards Pioneer Prize was awarded to Natalie Jeremijenko “for her consistently brilliant portfolio of work over the past two decades.” (a prize only awarded once before to Laurie Anderson). Awarded the 2013 Most Innovative People, named of the most influential women in technology 2011, one of the... read more! »

Daniel Kahneman

Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Daniel Kahneman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton., He is best known for his joint research with Amos Tversky on human judgment and decision making. Tversky did in 1996. Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. He is the author... read more! »

Eric Kandel

University Professor, Columbia University

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia; Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Co-Director, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and N.Y.U. School of Medicine, Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry... read more! »

Daniel Kohn

Born in 1964 in Ahmedabad, India to French and American parents, Daniel Kohn was raised in France. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1996. His artistic work can be seen as an ongoing attempt to integrate this diverse background into an evolving point of view. In his early career this led him to... read more! »

Marina Korsakova-Kreyn

Marina Korsakova-Kreyn is a professional pianist and scholar in music perception and cognition. She received her Diploma in Piano Performance from Nizhniy Novgorod State Conservatory, Russia, and she received her Ph.D. in Cognition and Neuroscience from The University of Texas at Dallas. Her research is focused on emotional responses to music and on the perception... read more! »

Ellen Levy

Ellen K. Levy, a New York-based artist and writer is Past President of the College Art Association (2004-2006) and received her PhD from the University of Plymouth (UK) (2012) on the art and neuroscience of attention. With Patricia Olynyk she co-directs the NY-based LASER (Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous). Until recently she was Special... read more! »

Ben Lillie

Ben Lillie is a high-energy particle physicist who left the ivory tower for the wilds of New York’s theater district. He has a B.A. in physics from Reed College, a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and a Certificate in improv comedy from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He is the Co-founder and Director... read more! »

Farzad Mahootian

Faculty of Liberal Studies, New York University

Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University. He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions between philosophy, science and society within the mythological imagination of technoscience and with guidance from process philosophy, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and premodern sciences. His... read more! »

Roger Malina

Roger Malina is an ArtScience Researcher, Space Scientist and Astronomer and Editor. ​He co directs the ArtSciLab at UTD Dallas which works on projects that cannot be accomplished unless artists and scientists work together, and on projects in Experimental Publishing. The latest project is the ARTECA art science technology aggregator with MIT Press and MIT.

Carol Mandel

Dean, NYU Division of Libraries

Carol A. Mandel is Dean of the NYU Division of Libraries, which includes NYU’s libraries in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai; along with Campus Media Services, University Archives, and the NYU Press. She has been a leading figure in research librarianship during its turn of the 20th-century transformation in a digital environment. Her work... read more! »

Alberto Manguel

Writer and translator

Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator and critic. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and received numerous international awards, among others the Formentor Prize 2017 and the Gutenberg Prize 2018. Until August 2018, he was the director of the Argentine National Library. He lives in New York.

Stephen Massimilla

Stephen Massimilla is a poet, scholar, professor, and painter. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, with a focus on poetry, from Columbia University. His new multi-genre volume, Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo, 2016), won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, and others. His previous... read more! »

Tim Maudlin

Professor of Philosophy, New York University

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B. A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale and his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His work centers on the interpretation of physical theory: how the mathematical structures used in physics may be understood as... read more! »

Shane Mayak

Shane Mayak is a biologist and founder of Ligo Project, a non-profit focused on connecting science to art, culture, and community. She studies the immune system, biological microenvironments, and how cells communicate with each other and their surroundings. Her main interest is in learning how immune cells and the biological processes and structures that control... read more! »

Jame McCray

Jame McCray is an Environmental Social Scientist at the Delaware Sea Grant. She is also a modern dancer, currently working on a component of “Same Stories, Different Countries,” a student project creating dances based on the science behind renewable energy in the U.S. and abroad.

Mark Mitton

Magician

Mark Mitton is a magician who is fascinated by using magic to better understand how we see the world. He performs magic and produces unique entertainment around the world, and explores the limits and potential of perception. Mark’s specialty is physical misdirection, or what some call “embodied cognition”. He regularly presents on ‘Perception & Deception’... read more! »

Mark A. Norell

Chairman of the Department of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History

Mark A. Norell was born July 26, 1957, in St. Paul, Minnesota and spent most of his formative years (from 1964) in southern California. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1980 from Long Beach State University and a Masters of Science from San Diego State University in 1983. In 1988, he was awarded the John... read more! »

Andrea Norton

Andrea Norton is classically-trained singer and choral conductor with a degree in Church Music from Westminster Choir College. Across her career, Andrea has worked with musicians of all ages in studio and church settings, and served as the artistic director and conductor of a community-based Renaissance a cappella choir. She spent 6 years at New... read more! »

Patricia Olynyk

atricia Olynyk’s work explores art, science, and technology-related themes that often examine the dialectics of natural and artificial, and cognition and affect. Appropriating scientific imaging technologies, her installations, photographs, and videos address how interpretation fluctuates between fact and speculation. Working across disciplines to develop “third culture” collaborations, she has programmed art, science and technology curricula,... read more! »

Cynthia Pannucci

Cynthia’s background is in Fine Arts, with a major in Printmaking and a minor in Art History. As a professional artist, her career embraced printmaking, textiles, mixed-media, photography, and interactive sculpture with artwork exhibited at The American Craft and Cooper-Hewitt museums in New York City, and commissions from Citicorp, The Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT;... read more! »

Nirav Patel

Nirav S. Patel is a Research Scholar at the Honors College, where he researches and teaches programs focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to human-environment interactions within social-ecological systems. As a member at the Rutgers energy Institute and Rutgers Climate Institute, Patel focuses specifically on coupled natural and human systems. HIs current teaching involves teaching an interdisciplinary... read more! »

Nancy Princenthal

Writer

Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based writer whose Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames and Hudson) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She is also the author of Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s and Hannah Wilke, and her essays have appeared in monographs on Doris Salcedo, Alfredo Jaar, Willie Cole and Gary Simmons, among many others. A former Senior Editor at Art in America, she has also written for the New York Times, Hyperallergic and elsewhere, and taught at... read more! »

Alana Quinn

Alana Quinn organizes exhibitions and public programs exploring intersections of art, science, and culture at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. She has co-organized the popular monthly D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) salon since its inception in 2011. Quinn curated the NAS’ current art exhibition, Steve Miller: Health of the Planet, on... read more! »

Mark Rosin

Mark is the Director of Guerilla Science, an award-winning international arts, science and culture organization that creates live events in unusual places, and a an assistant professor of Math & Science at the Pratt Institute of Art and Design. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge in 2010 and has... read more! »

Andrew Rossetti

Andrew Rossetti is a clinical music psychotherapist, researcher, and coordinator of the multi-site music therapy program in radiology oncology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Barcelona, and has developed several music therapy programs in hospitals both in the United States and in Spain. He is... read more! »

John Schaefer

John Schaefer is the host and producer of WNYC’s long-running new music show New Sounds (“The #1 radio show for the Global Village” – Billboard), founded in 1982, and its innovative Soundcheck podcast, which has featured live performances and interviews with a variety of guests since 2002. In January of 2017 he began a new... read more! »

Caleb Scharf

Director of Astrobiology, Columbia University

Caleb Scharf’s research career spans cosmology, exoplanetary science, and astrobiology. He currently leads efforts at Columbia University in New York to understand the nature of exoplanets and living environments in the universe. He is also a Global Science Coordinator for the Earth-Life Science Institute’s Origins Network at the Tokyo Institute for Technology and a co-founder... read more! »

Rebecca Seal

Assistant Professor
Departments of Neurobiology and Otolaryngology
Center for Pain Research, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Seal is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Otolaryngology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research. Her work has focused on the neurobiology of neurotransmitter transporters and their role in nervous system function including hearing, vision, motor output and pain. Dr. Seal began her studies of neural basis of pain... read more! »

Harvey Seifter

Harvey Seifter, one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity, is founder and director of The Art of Science Learning (AOSL), a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that uses the arts to spark creativity and innovation in science, technology, engineering and education. As Principal Investigator of AOSL’s two NSF grants, Harvey developed world’s first arts-based... read more! »

Daphna Shohamy

Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University

Daphna Shohamy is an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Mind, Brain Behavior Institute and Department of Psychology and a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science. Dr. Shohamy’s research combines brain imaging in healthy humans with studies of patients with brain disorders to understand how our expectations and experiences change the way memories are... read more! »

Steven Sloman

Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University

Steven Sloman is a Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University where he has worked since 1992. He did his PhD in Psychology at Stanford University from 1986-1990 and then did post-doctoral research for two years at the University of Michigan. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognition. Steven is a... read more! »

Ken Soehner

Ken Soehner is the Arthur K. Watson Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan of Art. With a collection of more than one million volumes, the libraries at The Metropolitan Museum comprise one of the largest and most encyclopedic collections of research material relating to the history of art. Ken has been at the... read more! »

Ilya Tëmkin

Professor of Biology, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution)

Ilya Tëmkin is an interdisciplinary scientist who studies how evolution works in nature and in human culture in the general framework of the hierarchy theory. An expert on bivalve mollusks, he analyzes the relative roles that ecology, history, and individual development play in diversification and the evolution of organic form. As a specialist on the... read more! »

Concetta Tomaino

Dr. Concetta Tomaino is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function and was Senior Vice President for Music Therapy at CenterLight Health System (formerly Beth Abraham Family of Health Services), where she worked from 1980 to 2016. Dr. Tomaino is internationally known for her research in the clinical applications... read more! »

Athena Viscusi

Psychosocial Care Specialist at MSF/Doctors without Borders USA

Athena Viscusi is currently the Psychosocial Care Specialist at MSF/Doctors without Borders USA, providing support to field workers before, after, and during deployment abroad. As a Mental Health Officer with MSF, she directed mental health and psychosocial programs for MSF in Haiti, South Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Myanmar, and Palestine. In that capacity she hired,... read more! »

Morris Vogel

President, the Tenement Museum

Morris J. Vogel has been president of New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum since 2008. He trained as an American social and urban historian at Brandeis University (B.A. 1967) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1974), before joining the faculty of Temple University in Philadelphia in 1973, where he was promoted to professor in... read more! »

Tyler Volk

Tyler Volk is professor of biology and environmental studies at New York University. In his just-released book, Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be (Columbia University Press, May, 2017) Volk explores a rhythm within what he calls the “grand sequence,” which has progressed as a series of levels of sizes and innovations from elementary... read more! »

Elizabeth Waters

Elizabeth Waters (Ph.D.) is a democracy and knowledge consultant. Her training in learning and memory neuroscience naturally led her to become an educator. Elizabeth works with students, teachers, and communities to explore the boundaries of our current knowledge and the practices that support this exploration. She conducts her work as part of the organizations Inquiring... read more! »

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