Dr. Allison Anderson
A specialist in international development, gender, ICT4D, geopolitics and socioeconomics, and the Middle east.
She previously worked at the Bill and worked at the bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Deloitte Consulting, and also served two years in the U.S. Peace corps in Rural Jordan. Ms. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Washington and M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins, and a B.A. in political science and Arabic and Islamic Studies from the university of Michigan.
Dr. Christina Kwauk
Associate Director of the Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Education (MECCE) project, hosted at the university of Saskatchewan. She is also a fellow in the centre for universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Christina Managed the Echidna Global Scholars Program and Previously served as a chair of the Girls CHARGE initiative. Christina is a co-author (with Gene sperling and Rebecca Winthrop) of What Works in Girls’ Education: Evidence of the world’s Best Investment.
She holds a PhD in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota and a MA in Social sciences from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Nadine Naber
A scholar-activist and Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is currently director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC. She is co-founder of the Arab and Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan and founder of the Arab American Cultural Centre at IC.
Dr. Naber is the author/co-author of five books: Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (2012); Race and Arab Americans (2008); Arab and Arab American Feminisms (2010); The colour of Violence ( 2006); and Towards the Sun. She is an expert author for UNESCWA; a board member of the Arab American Action Network; co-founder of the organization Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity and Founder of Liberate Your Research.
Patrick Odimnfe
Partrick Odimnfe is a social researcher with over four years of expertise in integral research practice. He's committed to supporting social innovation in communities globally that are economically and culturally disenfranchised.
He has worked with social innovators and their communities in the United States, the Middle East and West Africa