Bio: Dr. Dina Verdín is trained in the fields of Engineering Education and Industrial Engineering. She is a Mexican-American, Southern California native who was the first in her family to attend college (i.e., first-generation college student). Her research focused on access and persistence of Latinx and first-generation college students studying engineering comes from experiencing a lack of access to engineering identity shaping opportunities, experiencing the male-dominated culture of engineering, and struggle towards persisting in the field.

Bio: I am a queer, able-bodied (ish) person of the global majority. I enjoy reading, video games, and television, typically with a science fiction or fantasy theme. I also enjoy amateur nature photography and collage art projects. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio and went to school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (University of Pittsburgh). I then completed two postdoctoral fellowships in Tennessee (Vanderbilt University and University of Memphis) before landing at Arizona State University. This is my favorite weather by far.

Bio: Darryl Reano is an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration. Reano's research is focused on creating culturally relevant educational environments using Indigenous research frameworks. Before joining ASU, Reano was a postdoctoral associate in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. 

Bio: Amy is the Director of Learning Design for the College of Global Futures. Her passion is developing high quality inclusive courses that effectively implement emerging technologies for all students. She promotes collaborative course design with a partnership between faculty and instructional designers to advocate for evidence-based teaching practices and innovative technologies in all modalities, and a continual review process for improving courses.

Bio: Dr. Fabio Milner studies structured population models, including demography, epidemics, ecology, and tumor growth. Populations are usually structured by age (demographic and/or age-of-disease), and may also be structured by sex, size, or other relevant variables. The team studies theoretical properties of the models, such as existence, uniqueness, preservation of non-negativity, and asymptotic behavior, as well as real-life applications.
 

Bio: A sociologist by training, Michalec’s research examines socialization and professionalization processes and mechanisms nested within health professions education and practice – most notably those impacting socio-emotional and team-based skills and attributes. His work also explores disparities in health, healthcare, and within the health professions, with a focus on how structural design of pre-professional pathways may perpetuate the lack of diversity of the healthcare workforce.

Bio: I am an Assistant Research Scientist in the School of Earth & Space Exploration and the Center for Education Through Exploration at Arizona State Univeristy. I received my PhD in Isotope Geochemistry and Discipline-Based Education Research from ASU in 2014. Currently I have the pleasure of working on a variety of research and evaluation projects connected to digitally-mediated learning.

Bio: Dr. Keon M. McGuire (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and a Faculty Affiliate with the School of Social Transformation. He holds a joint PhD in Higher Education & Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Educational Researcher & education policy analysis archives, respectively. In 2019, he was named a National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and ACPA Emerging Scholar.

Bio: Dr. Sharon J. Hall is an ecosystem scientist who explores the ecology of native and managed ecosystems that sustain people and other organisms within the community of life.