Myrna Perez is an associate professor jointly appointed in Classics and Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as executive director of the Cutler Scholar’s Program at Ohio University. She is a historian of evolutionary theory, a feminist and critical -race theorist, and a scholar of religion. She earned her Ph.D. from the History of Science Department at Harvard University and has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.

Stevenson, MA, CHIE, CHIA, FSM., is an Assistant Professor of Instruction/Coordinator of Food and Beverage in the Department of Human and Consumer Sciences at Ohio University in The Gladys W. & David H. Patton College of Education. He is also the Deans Fellow 2021-2022 for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Younge, Professor of Music at Ohio University, is currently the Executive and Music Director of Azaguno, Inc., a multi-ethnic ensemble based in Athens, Ohio that focuses on research, preservation, and performance of African, African American, Caribbean, and Latin American Music and Dance.

Michael Kopish is a professor of teacher education at Ohio University’s Patton College of Education with expertise in instructional practices and assessments that emphasize disciplinary literacy in social studies. His major interests include teaching and learning in social studies classrooms; inclusive disciplinary literacy practices; and youth civic engagement.

Dr. Mathew Felton-Koestler studied Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in mathematics education at The University of Wisconsin Madison. He typically teaches courses in mathematics education for future teachers. His primary research focus is on issues of equity, diversity, and social justice in mathematics teacher education. He also studies how to make meaningful connections between mathematics and real-world topics, especially students’ out-of-school lives and social and political issues.

LaPoe focuses on media diversity, digital media and marketing strategy of media. Previously, she served as broadcasting and film coordinator and assistant professor at Western Kentucky University’s School of Journalism and Broadcasting.

Dr. Jane Balbo also serves as a family practice physician at Campus Care, the student health services program for Ohio University students. Balbo is board certified in Family Practice and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment, and in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (OMM/NMM).

Obi’s research interests are in the areas of organizational management/leadership as it relates to how variables like culture, gender, socioeconomic power, and other diversity issues impact organizational management practices. With a particular interest in management tools like empowerment, job satisfaction, leadership styles, and motivation of employees. The focus is on how variables like gender, socioeconomic power, culture, etc.

Research on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) stigma has existed since the epidemic first became a global concern in the 1980s. Because the general public did not understand the origins of HIV infection and AIDS disease, it created fear - a fear that brought on stigma and subsequent discrimination against those affected by the disease. Fear of discrimination and stigma further discouraged people living with HIV/AIDS from disclosing their HIV and AIDS status, said Dr. Caroline Kingori, associate professor of social and public health.