Meredith Jung-En Woo is an American academic and author. She is a Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. She served as President of Sweet Briar College,and is the former director of the International Higher Education Support Program at the Open Society Foundation in London. She also served as the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Kate Crawford is a researcher,writer,composer,producer and academic,who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research,the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU,a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media,a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU,and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is also a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development.
James William Tankard Jr.,communication scholar,author of The Statistical Pioneers and coauthor of Communication Theories:Origins,Methods,Uses.
Lynn Schofield Clark is an American media critic and scholar whose research focuses on media studies and film studies. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Media,Film,and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi,Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news. The book received the 2018 Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers and the 2018 James Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research Clark's book regarding parenting in the digital age is titled The Parent App:Understanding Families in a Digital Age. Clark’s main contributions are in the areas of family media studies,media rich youth participatory action research and the mediatization (media) of world religions.
Tricia Rose is an American sociologist and author who pioneered scholarship on hip hop. Her studies mainly probe the intersectionality of pop music and gender. Now at Brown University,she is a professor of Africana Studies and is the director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Rose also co-hosts a podcast,The Tight Rope,with Cornel West.
Adrienne Russell is an American academic whose work focuses on the digital-age evolution of journalism and activist communication. She is currently Mary Laird Wood Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and co-director with Matt Powers of the department's Center for Journalism,Media and Democracy.
Allissa V. Richardson is an American journalist and college professor. She is best known as a proponent of mobile journalism and citizen journalism. Richardson has trained students in the United States and Africa to report news using only smartphones,tablets and MP3 players. She is assistant professor of journalism in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Additionally,Richardson is a Nieman Foundation Visiting Journalism Fellow at Harvard University,the 2012 Educator of the Year for the National Association of Black Journalists,and a two-time Apple Distinguished Educator.
Margaret James Strickland Collins was an African-American child prodigy,entomologist (zoologist) specializing in the study of termites,and a civil rights advocate. Collins was nicknamed the "Termite Lady" because of her extensive research on termites. Together with David Nickle,Collins identified a new species of termite called Neotermesluykxi. When Collins earned her PhD.,she became the first African American female entomologist and the third African American female zoologist.
Lulu Merle Johnson was an American historian and university administrator. She was the second African-American woman to earn a PhD in history in the United States,and the first to do so in the state of Iowa. P. G. Dagbovie has described Johnson as being part of the "first distinguishable coterie of formally trained black women historians" in the U.S. She became the namesake of Johnson County,Iowa,in September 2020.
Zeynep Tufekci is a sociologist,and the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is also a columnist for The New York Times. Her work focuses on social media,media ethics,the social implications of new technologies,such as artificial intelligence and big data,as well as societal challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic using complex and systems-based thinking. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, she is one of the most prominent academic voices on social media and the new public sphere. In 2022,Tufekci was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her “insightful,often prescient,columns on the pandemic and American culture”,which the committee said “brought clarity to the shifting official guidance and compelled us towards greater compassion and informed response.”
Jedidah C. Isler is an American astrophysicist,educator,and an active advocate for diversity in STEM. She became the first African-American woman to complete her PhD in astrophysics at Yale in 2014. She is currently an assistant professor of astrophysics at Dartmouth College. Her research explores the physics of blazars and examines the jet streams emanating from them. In November 2020,Isler was named a member of Joe Biden's presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Lana F. Rakow is a professor emerita of communication at the University of North Dakota and author of Gender on the Line:Women,the Telephone,and Community Life (1992). In 2000,she was identified as a top woman scholar in journalism and mass communication,and her research results were reported by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication on the Status of Women. She also has numerous other published works that are primarily in the fields of communication and feminist theory.
Brittany Lee Lewis is an activist,television personality,political commentator,disc jockey (DJ),Miss Delaware 2014,and Miss Black America 2017. She is a native of Brigantine,New Jersey. Lewis was crowned the 49th Miss Black America in 2017 and she competed in the Miss America Pageant as Miss Delaware in 2014. She is also a regular commentator on RT News,Roland Martin Show,Fox5DC,and various Sinclair Broadcasting programs.
Megan Squire is a professor of computer science at Elon University. A researcher and Anti-Defamation League fellow with a focus on right-wing political extremism online,her work has been described as operating as an intermediary between non-profits like the Southern Poverty Law Center and militant groups on the far-left.
Joan Donovan is an American social science researcher and assistant professor at the College of Communication,Boston University. She was previously a researcher and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University,an affiliate at Data and Society,and was research director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media,Politics and Public Policy.
Marcia Chatelain is an American academic who serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2021,she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Franchise:The Golden Arches in Black America,for which she also won the James Beard Award for Writing in 2022. Chatelain was the first black woman to win the latter award.
Kathleen S. Kelly is an American public relations theorist and academic administrator. She is a professor and chair of the department of public relations at University of Florida. Kelly was the Hubert J. Bourgeois Research Professor in Communication at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She served as associate dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Kelly is a Fellow of the PRSA.
Mary Angela Bock is a journalist and professor of journalism. She is an associate professor of journalism at University of Texas at Austin in the School of Media and Journalism with an expertise in visual communication,citizen journalism and representation.
Devon Powers is an American communication studies professor,author,and former music journalist.
Aimee Meredith Cox is an American cultural anthropologist,former dancer,and choreographer.
