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.

Michela Baraldi is a Full Teaching Professor of Italian Language in the Department of Romance Studies. Originally from Bologna, Italy, she has been at Cornell since 2002, teaching across all levels of Italian language and culture, including her popular course on Italian Food Culture.

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.

Michael Clarkson, PhD '10, is a Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science at Cornell University. He teaches computer programming courses at all levels, from students writing their first lines of code to graduate students using logic to prove that software is bug-free.

Christa Downey is an independent executive coach and leadership consultant, who works with leaders at all stages of their careers, from first-job jitters to C-suite pivots. She brings the same curiosity to her conversations in Rose House as she does to her client work: What lights you up? What are you building toward?

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.