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David Julian McClements

Dr. David Julian McClements is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts. His research uses the basic principles of physics, chemistry and biology to improve the quality, healthiness, safety and sustainability of the modern food supply McClements received his Ph.D. in Food Science (1989) at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) in ultrasonic spectrometry. He then did Post-Doctoral Research at the University of Leeds, University of California (Davis) and University College Cork (Ireland). McClements is the sole author of three books, published over 1100 scientific papers, and is currently the most highly cited author in food science.

Denise Barstow

Denise Barstow is a seventh generation dairy farmer and the Marketing and Education Manager at Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery and Barstow's Longview Farm. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in Recreation Management and Policy, worked in Washington DC, was a trail guide in Glacier National Park, and returned back to the farm in 2017 to tell her family's story. Barstow's Longview Farm has been providing nutritional food, stewarding open space, and preserving heritage for over 200 years in scenic Hadley, MA. Denise creates on-farm educational programming and offers farm tours to learners of all ages - building farm memories and educated consumers - to help sustain the traditions of dairy in New England. Denise's passions lie in community, agriculture, sustainability, nature, and the role we all play in building and maintaining peace.

Erin Baker

Erin Baker is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the NSF-funded IGERT: Offshore wind energy engineering, environmental impacts, and policy. She works at border between engineering and economics. Her research is on decision making under uncertainty applied to energy and the environment, with a focus on publicly-funded energy technology Research and Development portfolios in the face of climate change. Her work appears in leading academic journals including Science, Nature Energy, Operations Research, and Climatic Change.

Juliana Denrich

Juliana is a New York-based poet and UMass Amherst alum motivated to share stories that bring attention to the world's injustices. She is currently training to be a yoga teacher so that she can further explore the intersections of advocacy and consciousness. Inspired by her ancestry, Juliana hopes to honor the lives of those who paved the way before her by bringing light to the reality of our lives.

Kavya Krishna

Kavya is the Co-founder of the Society of Women Coders (SOWCoders), a women-led organization that works to encourage young girls from developing nations to opt for education and careers in STEM, by conducting free coding and Entrepreneurship camps and providing mentorship. She also works as a Senior analyst at SiriusXM in New York. Through SOWCoders, she has worked with government agencies and civic organizations in Haiti, Kenya, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Belize to establish coding camps, and has personally taught at several of them. She is also involved with the Code in place Initiative at Stanford University as a Section Leader. She is an advocate of Women Education especially in the developing world.

Maria Guarino

Maria is a teacher and advisor at the Center for New Americans in Northampton, MA. She holds a masters in Hispanic Literature and graduate certificates in Advanced Feminist Studies and Film Studies. Last year, she exhibited a collaborative video essay created with local artists and friends exploring her ElseSpace at the Anchor House Gallery in Northampton, which is now forthcoming in Disability Studies Quarterly. Maria is particularly interested in the differences and intersections in spaces, and the intervention of the visual- what distinct conversations does a gallery space foster about disability vs. an academic one? Can we utilize images and videos of the body in distress as corporeal interventions, or do they stop at the line of grotesque, shocking, and ultimately counterproductive to a disabled narrative?

Shalini Bahl-Milne

Shalini Bahl, Ph.D., is a mindful change agent, an award-winning researcher, keynote speaker, and Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Search Inside Yourself teacher. Based on 15 years of research. and a cross-disciplinary approach, Dr. Bahl provides customized solutions for business, education and political clients with the mindfulness skills they need to disrupt default thinking and cope with stress, become more resilient to life’s obstacles, and live with empowered choice for personal and collective fulfillment. A former successful entrepreneur and business professor, Dr. Bahl’s cultural experiences of living and working in three countries—India, Kuwait, and the USA—allow her to engage with diverse audiences including CEOs and executives at Fortune 500 companies, college campuses, and students. As an Affiliated Expert at the Isenberg School of Management, UMass, Amherst and Town Councilor in Amherst, Dr. Bahl provides her mindfulness teachings via accredited leadership programs on campus and to executive MBAs.