AJ Alvero is an Assistant Research Professor with the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. As a computational sociologist, his work incorporates big data and computational methods to answer questions related to culture, language, race and ethnicity, education, technology, and social stratification.

Rosemary Avery is Professor of Policy Analysis and Management in the Brooks School of Public Policy. She joined the Cornell University faculty in 1988, and currently serves as Chairperson of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM). Dr. Avery served on the Cornell University Board of Trustees 2008-2012 as a Faculty Trustee and serves on several leading university committees.

Caitlín Eilís (Caitie) Barrett is an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, religious experience, and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean.

The garden’s natural areas program stewards 3,700 acres of biologically diverse nature preserves, representing nearly all the natural community types and rarest plant habitats in the central Finger Lakes region.

Garrick Blalock is an associate professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management where he teaches managerial economics and firm strategy. His research interest is technology adoption in emerging markets. He has authored several studies examining the link between trade -- imports, exports, and foreign direct investment -- and manufacturing productivity in Southeast Asia.

Kate Bronfenbrenner is the Director of Labor Education Research and a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations where she does teaching and research on labor, race, and gender, and union and employer strategies in organizing and bargaining in the global economy.

Christa is inspired by people who pursue their passions through work, service, and hobbies and she is passionate about helping Cornell students find ways to connect their strengths and interests through unique opportunities. Christa is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

Mike Fontaine came to Cornell in 2004 and has risen through the ranks. As a Professor of Classics (the fancy name for the study of ancient Greece and Rome), he investigates Latin literature from ancient Rome through the Renaissance.

Fiber scientist Margaret Frey creates nanofibers that are hundreds of times thinner than a human hair, and studies the way these fibers can remove pathogens from air and water, aid textile biodegradation, and offer cooling on a warming planet.

Tristan Ivory is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. His research is principally concerned with sub-Saharan African geographic, social, and economic mobility and cross-national comparisons of labor market inequality faced by recently arrived workers.