Saas, William

William O. Saas is cohost and producer of the podcast “Money on the Left,” presented in partnership with Monthly Review Online. He is also co-founder and co-director of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective, which maintains a platform for publishing digital work that explores the historical and contemporary overlap between cultural practice, public policy and political economy. Saas is jointly appointed as professor of practice in communication and digital media practices and serves as research scholar with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.

Li, Chenzhong

Chenzhong Li is a professor of biochemistry and biomedical engineering in the Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics at the School of Medicine. Previously he was a professor of biomedical engineering, immunology and chemistry at Florida International University in Miami. He also served as the program director of biosensing program at the National Science Foundation. He holds 16 granted patents and has written about 150 peer-reviewed journal papers, two books and seven book chapters.

Chambers, Jonathan (Jon)

Jon Chambers holds an MFA in new media art from the University of Illinois – Chicago and has shown work nationally and internationally, and in screening venues, galleries, and online, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Athens Digital Arts Festival in Athens, Greece, Powrplnt in New York City, and ProgramaLaPlaza in Madrid, Spain. He has held residencies at the p5.js Contributors Conference, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Media Archeology Lab.

Liu, Xiaowen (Kevin)

Kevin Liu is a professor of bioinformatics in the Division of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics at the School of Medicine. He did postdoctoral training at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Waterloo, and the University of California–San Diego from 2008 to 2012. Before joining Tulane, he worked at the Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis for nine years.

Heianza, Yoriko

Yoriko Heianza's research focuses on genetic, nutrition and biochemical risk factors and gene-environment interactions on obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Heianza has recently investigated the role of changes in gut microbial metabolites and other metabolomic markers in the development of chronic metabolic diseases in dietary intervention trials and prospective cohort studies. Her research efforts have yielded more than 90 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Gregorian, Tamar G.

Tamar Meguerditchian Gregorian, PhD, APR, is an award-winning communicator with over 15 years of experience in creating strategic communication campaigns in both the private and public sectors. A native New Orleanian, Gregorian graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a BA in 2004, Louisiana State University with a master's in 2007 and The University of Southern Mississippi with a PhD in 2018.

Davis, Mark

A widely consulted and quoted authority on water law and management, Mark Davis joined Tulane Law School in 2007 as a senior research fellow and founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy. In 2017 he also became the director of Tulane’s ByWater Institute, which is focused on the interdisciplinary aspects of water stewardship and community resilience. In 2019 he was named the founding director of the Tulane Center for Environmental Law and in 2020 was promoted to research professor.

Olson-Mayes, Liam C.

Liam Olson-Mayes holds a PhD in rhetoric and public Cculture from Northwestern University. His research interests are firmly rooted in the humanities and include the conceptual and representational history of poverty, social and economic inequality, and the fantasy of meritocracy.

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