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Roger Sparks is a Professor of Economics at Mills College, Oakland, CA. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis and has been at Mills College since 1989. Professor Sparks is currently director of the Master of Applied Economics program at Mills and chair of the Economics Department. He has more than 20 research papers published in economics journals, has refereed many paper submissions to professional journals, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Kemper Human Rights Education Foundation. Professor Sparks’ research applies game theory and the economics of information to a variety of topics, including the theory of unemployment, efficiency wages, employee stock offerings, cyclical changes in labor productivity, the determination of mortgage rates, mortgage securitization, environmental policy, utility regulation, psychiatric decision-making, the energy paradox, and the price impacts of low-carbon fuel standards. This research agenda has allowed him to incorporate into his teaching first-hand knowledge about a variety of topics and techniques of analysis, which in turn has enhanced his students’ curiosity and learning.

Dr Fadekemi Janet Osaye is a mathematician whose primary research interest is in graph theory and network modeling. In particular, she is interested in distance measures in graphs and their applications to solving many real-world problems. Her interest in discrete mathematics was inspired by her research project carried out at AIMS Ghana. She has published several articles in reputable journals and has presented in several conferences across the globe. In 2019, she became the first black female to be awarded a PhD in Mathematics by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, in its 116 years of its existence. Since June 2021, she has been an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Alabama State University and was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Auburn University. She is the founder of GirlsMatics Foundation, a STEM non-governmental organisation for girls in Nigeria which was motivated by her involvement with AIMS Ghana’s outreach programs for high school students in Biriwa, Ghana. She is also the co-founder of FadNna Partners, an analytics and management firm based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Dr. Robert Gitter is an economist with over 45 years of experience. He has taught at Ohio Wesleyan University for over 45 years. He continues to teach Labor Economics and working on research. His publications include work on immigration, worker turnover, and studies for various nonprofits and local and state governments as well as nonprofits.

I currently work as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Trauma Resilience and Education Center of Greater Washington, DC. I approach mental health treatment from a trauma-informed lens and specialize in working with transgender, asexual, and LGBQ+ clients, and clients with outpatient eating disorder concerns. I specialize in research focusing on healthcare access for trans and nonbinary individuals, gender dysphoria, LGBTQ+ resilience, and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic. I received a Ph.D. counseling psychology and M.A. in psychology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and previously received a BA in Psychology, a BS in mechanical engineering, and a MS in biomedical engineering, all from the University of Florida. Prior to starting the PhD program, I worked in the medical device industry as the Senior Manager of Product Commercialization in Research and Development at NovaBone Products.

Parvathypriya C, Pharm D, M. Sc IMID, worked as a Clinical research pharmacist at the Center for arthritis and rheumatism excellence. She has a M Sc in Immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases from Université Grenoble I in 2020 and a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University in 2017. She has experience in clinical research and wet laboratory research.

My educational career has been unique and non-traditional. I started kindergarten when I was four years old, just meeting the deadline for admission in that cohort. I subsequently attended every school type imaginable: public, private, parochial, charter, and homeschool. I graduated a year early, at sixteen years of age, and joined the United States Marine Corps three days after my seventeenth birthday.  Upon completing basic training and primary specialty training, I immediately initiated a request to attend night school using USMC tuition assistance benefits. My immediate leadership denied the request several times, but I persisted and continued petitioning the chain of command until I got direct approval from the battalion commander. I concurrently continuously self-studied and ultimately earned fifty-nine undergraduate credit hours through non-traditional methods – CLEPs, DSSTs, and military education. I completed my Associate degree in under two years and left active duty at twenty years old, having finished all but three classes toward my undergraduate degree. When I left the organization, nearly a third of the junior enlisted personnel had enrolled in classes.  Immediately after finishing my bachelor’s degree, I attended graduate school on nights and weekends while working a full-time job, earning a Master of Science in International Relations with a concentration in National Security Policy. Some years later, I also leveraged my remaining GI Bill benefits to complete another master’s degree in Cybersecurity Technology.  I spent most of my adult life overseas as a member of the military and a civilian contractor supporting the military mission. My growth and advancement over my career are largely due to the skills and attributes that I was fortunate enough to learn and develop in the Marines.  As the Cybersecurity Architect for the Penn State Applied research lab, I was involved in countless enterprise initiatives and over half a dozen separate research projects. I care deeply about the global importance and impact of our research and development efforts. I’ve also started collaboration efforts across the university, creating the Open-Source Program Office (OSPO) working group and the cybersecurity collaboration group. In addition, I’ve just begun working on a proposal, collaborating with several PSU organizations (CSRE, ARL, IST, ITS, and Libraries) to attempt to establish our OSPO to make a world-class open-source software center of excellence. One intended focus of the program office is to create reusable standards and templates for consumption and replicability across academia. The program office would also simplify the mechanism for open-source software contribution approvals, outreach, and coordination throughout the university.  As a member FFRDC/UARC information security working group, I've worked on some of the most complex security challenges in the Department of Defense and the Defense Industrial Base. I am also an active member of several other professional organizations, including (ISC)2, the New England Complex Systems Institute, the Association of Old Crows, and the Military Cyber  Professionals Organization. I also regularly attend and participate in cybersecurity conferences, including DEF CON, Security Congress, InfoWarCon, and HammerCon.