Michael Roth

Michael S. Roth is the president of Wesleyan University and one of the senior advisors to the Growing the Life Worth Living Network in Higher Education grant project. Formerly president of California College of the Arts (CCA), Roth is known as a historian, curator, author and public advocate for liberal education. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is The Student, A Short History (Yale University Press, 2023).

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Sara Ilić

Graduate Student, University of Lucerne

University of Lucerne

Faculty of Theology, Institute of Social Ethics ISE, Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics LGSE

Sara is a PhD candidate in Business Ethics at the University of Lucerne and an award-winning lecturer specializing in Responsible Management Education.

Adam Waters

Graduate Student, Yale

Yale University

History

Adam Waters is a PhD Candidate in History at Yale University and the current president of UNITE HERE Local 33, the graduate worker union at Yale.

Charlotte Hecht

Graduate Student, Yale

Yale University

American Studies

Charlotte Hecht is a writer and interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture, the built environment, and landscape. She is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Yale University.

Elena Adasheva-Klein

Graduate Student, Yale

Yale University

Anthropology

Elena Adasheva-Klein works at the intersection of social anthropology and environmental humanities investigating how human-environment relations contribute to a meaningful existence.

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