Josephine M. Kim is Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the former faculty director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, and a Diversity Scholar at the National Center for Institutional Diversity who steers equity and anti-racist practices of senior executives in nonprofit organizations, corporations, and K-16 institutions. She is an internationally known as a speaker and consultant who lends expertise on cross-cultural, diversity and inclusion, mental health, and educational issues to media sources, organizations, Fortune 100-500 corporations, and schools in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. She is a former resident fellow in the Administrative Fellowship Program at the Office of the Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity at Harvard University and is Expert on diversity & inclusion and training design (focused on antiracism in the workplace) at United Nations. She is a Diversity Subject Matter Expert at the Center for Workplace Development at Harvard University and an affiliated faculty at the Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in cultural adjustment and racial identity development; promotion of mental health and prevention of psychological risk; intercultural understanding and cultural brokering; culturally relevant counseling and advocacy; and anti-racist pedagogy and practices.

Dr. Patriann Smith is an author and tenured associate professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Smith is well known for her research which considers how literacy teaching, research, assessment and policy are influenced by the intersection of race, language and (im)migration. Dr. Smith challenges literacy teaching via monolingual, monocultural, and monoracial norms in classrooms across the globe. She has proposed solutions via her transdisciplinary research such as ‘a transraciolinguistic approach’ and the framework for ‘Black immigrant literacies’.

Dr. Kellan E. Baker is the Executive Director of Whitman-Walker Institute, the research, policy, and education arm of Whitman-Walker, which is a community health system in Washington, DC, USA that includes Whitman-Walker Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center. Kellan is a health policy professional and health services researcher with extensive background in health system design, regulatory policy, public health, and government statistics. He is experienced in developing and analyzing health policy, synthesizing and communicating evidence, managing diverse coalitions, and working with government, philanthropy, and other partners to achieve health policy objectives. Kellan is passionate about health equity, LGBTQ health, disability rights, and racial and reproductive justice. He received his PhD in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD, USA, where he was a Health Policy Research Scholar and Centennial Scholar; an MPH in health policy and MA in international development from George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA; and a BA with high honors from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA, USA.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Global Transformation for UC San Diego. I was an Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Scholar for the academic year 2021-2022. I work mainly on environmental and development economics. My interests lie primarily in understanding the consequences of environmental change and the challenges governments face in implementing policies in contexts with underlying structural inequalities or weak institutions. I am currently working on the economics of air pollution control and on the impacts of temperature on financial outcomes and hospital management. On the development economics side, I am currently studying gender disparities in labor markets both in Mexico and the United States, as well as women’s health in Tanzania and Mexico. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from Columbia University in 2021.