Bonnie Keeler works at the intersection of sustainability science and environmental economics, with particular expertise in water policy. Keeler’s research investigates the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, the social costs of water pollution, and the dynamics of social-ecological systems. Keeler is the co-director of the CREATE Initiative, a community-engaged research project that aims to leverage the resources of the research university in service to the needs and priorities of environmental justice organizations in urban watersheds.

Esther Krook-Magnuson is a neuroscientist seeking to improve our understanding of how cells interact within a network, how networks interact with each other, and the physiological roles of neuronal populations. Neuronal networks, diversity, and specificity of function are important to both physiological processes and neurological disorders.

Olihe Okoro is a community-engaged scholar whose research efforts aim to investigate and address structural inequities that drive health disparities. Dr. Okoro’s work is unique in that it seeks to understand the intersections of social determinants of health with race/ethnicity and sociocultural context, and the implications for health care and health outcomes. Her work continues to inform interventions to improve health outcomes in Black communities. Dr.

Rachel Hardeman is a Reproductive Health Equity Researcher whose work has significantly shifted the field's ability to name and operationalize structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities. Furthermore, her research and scholarly activities have made health inequities due to racism more visible and offered empirical evidence as to the ways that public health might intervene on the growing racial inequities in health and health care in our country through health care systems change, medical education and policy.

Maggie Hennefeld is a feminist comedy theorist and international silent film curator. Her award- winning book, Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (Columbia UP, 2018) reveals the forgotten history of female performers in early slapstick film comedies. She is an editor of the journal Cultural Critique and co-editor of two volumes, Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019) and Abjection Incorporated (Duke UP, 2020). She is currently writing a book about the history of women who allegedly died from laughing too hard.

Dr. Kowalewski’s research aims to create new solutions to long-standing problems in surgery. He discovered methods that quantify and improve the skill of a surgeon accurately, inexpensively, and in a manner that can scale to millions of procedures annually. Due to his startup company in this area (acquired by Johnson and Johnson) these methods see daily use throughout several hospital systems. He is now creating safer surgical robots that magnify the capabilities of surgeons.