Kathleen Fitzpatrick (she/her) is Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University, where she also directs MESH, a research and development unit focused on the future of scholarly communication. She is project director of Humanities Commons, an open-access, open-source network serving more than 30,000 scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world, and she is author of several books, including Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, 2011). She is president of the board of directors of the Educopia Institute, and she is past president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Sloan Leo (they/he) is a design theorist, facilitator, and practitioner. They are the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FLOX Studio. FLOX is a community design and strategy studio that supports mission-driven organizations to animate the practice of their values. Using facilitation FLOX Studio engages innovative social impact leaders to collaboratively design their culture, strategy, and organizational development efforts. Rooted in black feminist theory, Afrofuturism, and social justice, FLOX is on a mission to improve the embodied experience of social impact workers and the institutional communities they comprise. Appointed the inaugural Designer-in-Residence at the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation Master’s program, Leo has over 15 years of experience with social impact management and community design.

Zoy Anastassakis (she/her) is a Brazilian Designer and Anthropologist. Between 2016 and 2018, she was Director at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial, at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (School of Industrial Design, State University of Rio de Janeiro, or ESDI/UERJ), where she works as Adjunct Professor. At ESDI, she coordinates the research group “Design and Anthropology Laboratory” (LaDA), where she experiments on means of composition between Anthropology and Design. In 2018, she was a guest researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, as part of "Knowing from the inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design", a project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant held by Professor Tim Ingold. Since 2020, Zoy has been an associated researcher at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (Center for Research in Anthropology, CRIA), in Lisbon, Portugal. She wrote the books “Triunfos e Impasses: Lina Bo Bardi, Aloisio Magalhães e o design no Brasil” (2014) and “Refazendo Tudo: confabulações em meio aos cupins na universidade” (2020). With Marcos Martins, she is co-author of the book “Everyday acts of design. Learning in a time of emergency” (2022). Inspired by the work of Donna Haraway, in 2020 she founded the independent studies programme in humanities.

Dr. Renée T. White (she/her) became provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs of The New School on August 1, 2021. She also serves as Professor of Sociology with tenure at The New School for Social Research.

With more than 25 years of experience working in higher education, Dr. White came to The New School from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she served as provost and a professor of sociology since 2016. She previously served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Simmons University from 2011 to 2016. Before working at Simmons, Dr. White served in faculty roles, including professor of sociology and Black studies and academic coordinator for Diversity and Global Citizenship at Fairfield University. She also held a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the African American Studies Research Center at Purdue University.