Beth received her Juris Doctor at Georgetown University Law Center. She is a practicing lawyer and, alongside her students, advocates on behalf of low-income asylum seekers, farmworkers, and farmworker families in local, state, federal and international fora.

Fahrisa is a rising third-year PhD student at CALS in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, where she studies small extracellular vesicles in fruit flies and their role in reproductive success. She completed her Bachelors with Honors in Life Sciences from Yale-NUS College.

Vida is a professor in the Sociology Department and studies social inequality and how it comes about. How do families come to have certain bundles of resources? How is inequality passed down from parents to children? How does it change over time?

Alan Martinez is Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability where he focuses on building and managing partnerships that connect the expertise and research capacity at Cornell with sustainability partners in nonprofit, government and private sector organizations.

Jessica Levin Martinez is the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She is a leading advocate for museum-based interdisciplinary teaching with global collections. Before joining Cornell in 2019, she directed academic and public programs at Harvard Art Museums and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.

Doug McKee is a senior lecturer in Economics where he teaches a variety of big intermediate level courses and runs the department’s Active Learning Initiative (https://as.cornell.edu/education-innovation#ALI).

Siena is a junior studying food science. She is originally from Rockville, Maryland and transferred to Cornell from the University of Maryland. After graduation she hopes to become a flavor chemist. She currently does lab research on taste modulation for natural sweeteners and also works in the Undergraduate Admissions Office.

Mostafa Minawi is an Associate Professor of history. Broadly, his research focuses on the study of Ottoman imperialism at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. His latest book, Losing Istanbul, is an intimate history of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living through the final decades of the empire in Istanbul.

Hi everyone, I'm Danielle! I am a PhD candidate, poet, public speaker. To me, there is creativity in everything we do, and we should strive towards finding new ways to create and share our experiences of the world with others. Art and storytelling is a beautiful way to connect with people and be of service to them!

Kim Overby is a Visiting Professor of the Practice in the Department of Science and Technology.  As an academic physician and medical ethicist, her primary role at Cornell has been teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.