Roz Picard

Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, professor and engineer. She is best-known for her book, Affective Computing, which proposed and described how to give skills of emotional intelligence to computers—including voice assistants, robots, agents, and many kinds of interactive technologies. Picard is a named inventor on over a hundred patents, with impact that earned her recognition as both a member of the National Academy of Engineering and as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Picard is founder and director of the MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Research Group, where she teaches and mentors students in research.

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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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