Professor Foldy is an Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. She is affiliated Faculty with the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management in Boston. Erica’s research addresses the question: What enables and inhibits collaboration and learning across potential divisions? She explores a variety of influences including identities, frames, learning behaviors, power dynamics, and leadership.

Erica has conducted research in a wide range of organizations, from large public agencies and community nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies, boutique firms, and health care settings. She is co-author of the book The Color Bind: Talking (and not Talking) about Race at Work and co-editor of the Reader in Gender and Organizations. In addition, she has more than forty papers in a variety of outlets, including management, public administration, psychology and medical journals, and various handbooks, encyclopedias and edited volumes.

Prior to her PhD program, Professor Foldy worked for 15 years with nonprofit organizations addressing foreign policy, women’s rights, and occupational health and safety. She has consulted on strategic planning, organization development, and diversity and inclusion to a range of groups and agencies. Erica holds a BA from Harvard College and a PhD from Boston College and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Ana María Peredo, PhD, is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of
Victoria, Canada. Prior to that, she was Professor in the School of Business (2000-
2016) and Director of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy
(2008-2014) at UVic. She is a critical management scholar, focusing on community
alternatives, social economy, social justice and participatory action research, particularly
among Indigenous peoples and disadvantaged communities. She has published in the
areas of community-based entrepreneurship, poverty alleviation, commons and
resistance movements. Ana María has published her research in top management and
organizational journals and received numerous research, teaching and community
engagement awards.

Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican environmental/climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry, born and raised in New York City. Elizabeth is co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance, a national frontline led organization and Executive Director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization. Elizabeth was the 1st Latina Chair of the USEPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and opening speaker for the first White House Council on Environmental Quality Forum on Environmental Justice under Obama and recently featured in NY Times as a visionary paving the path to Climate Justice. She recently was named by Apolitical as Climate 100: The World’s Most Influential People in Climate Policy and a recipient of the Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Award FD200.

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology, and Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He holds the Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy. He began his education in Australia and moved to France in 1974, where he received his doctorate in Economics and Management while working as a Research Economist for the French government. He came to the USA in 1981, and before arriving at USC in 1991, he was affiliated with the Brookings Institution, Barnard College at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, and Stanford's School of Engineering. 

Paul has served as chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division and of the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, and served as President of the Academy of Management in 2013-14. He has published widely in academic journals, edited several books, including The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations (2009), The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (2014), and co-authored Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente (2009). His most recent book, The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism, was published in October 2019.

Nidhi Srinivas is Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management at Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment. His research interests center on global civil society and post-colonial management knowledge. Specifically, he studies the Management of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the Transfer and Transformation of Management knowledge to, and within, organizations in formerly colonized countries. 

Srinivas teaches courses in the areas of Nonprofit Management, International Development, and Organization Theory. Classes seek to enhance student ability to critique and integrate theories, as well as emphasize reflective readings and discussion. 

Srinivas has also taught as a visiting professor at Escola Brasileira de Administraçao Publica e de Empresas (EBAPE) at the Fundação GetulioVargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, India. His book manuscript Against Non-Governmental Organizations? A critical perspective on their management is under preparation for Routledge Press. He is an India-China Institute Fellow 2010-2012.