Michelle Smith enjoys working with and teaching undergraduate students so much that it inspired her to switch fields.  Michelle’s Ph.D. is in biology, with an emphasis in genetics.  While she liked working in the lab, she LOVED being a TA and often found herself daydreaming about ways to teach biology.

Aoise is a playwright, so she gets to make a lot of things up. Things she has made up have been performed in theatres in Ithaca, all over the country and overseas. She also makes things up for books and films, and she writes about the things other people make up as well.

Deepak Varuvel Dennison (he/him) is a PhD student in Information Science, researching AI technologies for multilingual learners. Deepak is from Tamil Nadu, India. He enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, reading & writing long essays, tinkering in makerspaces, and spending time outdoors. 

Wendy Wilcox is a Research & Instruction Librarian in Olin & Uris Libraries.  She holds a B.A. from Eckerd College and an M.L.I.S. from the University of South Florida and has been with the Cornell University Library for 20 years.