Kelsey Cummings studies new media and identity. Her research has been published in the journals Television and New Media, Feminist Media Studies, Social Media + Society and Studies in the Fantastic. Cummings is currently working on a book project about whiteness and social media design. She earned her PhD in film and media studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020.

Jia Zhuo, MD, PhD, is the director of Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence and a tenured professor in the Department of Physiology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He joined Tulane from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he served as a tenured professor and the director of Receptor and Signal Transduction Laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Julia Sonn is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She also attended graduate school at Tulane University, receiving her PhD in 2016. She has been teaching at Tulane since earning her doctorate and enjoys teaching both majors and non-majors. Her research interests include disease ecology, herpetology, fungal pathogens and conservation.

Joseph Mudd's lab iseeks to understand the underlying mechanisms of differential disease outcomes in progressive and non-progressive SIV infection. In the former setting, a major aspect of the work is interested in examining the immunological and virological factors favoring viral persistence in the GI tract during ART. In the latter setting, Mudd examines the molecular mechanisms governing HIV entry receptor control, a host adaptation that has evolved to allow natural hosts to subvert disease progression.

Jolie Montreuil, MSN, APRN, NP-C, has served Greater New Orleans as a family nurse practitioner since 2017. She is a New Orleans native who received her Master of Science in Nursing with a family nurse practitioner focus at the University of Louisiana–Lafayette (2016) and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Holy Cross (2005). As a registered nurse she worked in critical care, pediatrics, emergency medicine and medevac.

Jennifer A. Manuzak received her PhD in immunology from the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, after which she trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute Cochin, Paris.

Julia Lang is the associate director of career education and life design and a professor of practice with the School of Architecture and the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking. In this role, Lang supports undergraduate and graduate students in identifying their changemaker paths – where their academic interests and career aspirations intersect with a commitment to make positive social impact throughout life. Lang’s life design curriculum is available open-source for any educator and is used by over 150 educators worldwide.

Dr. Jeff Lackey joins the Tulane dermatology team after retiring from a career in the U.S. Army, where he capped 25 years of military service by heading the Dermatology Service at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Lackey attended medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and dermatology residency at Walter Reed.

Jake Krupa joins the A. B. Freeman School from the University of Miami, where he earned his PhD in business administration. He teaches advanced financial accounting in the Master of Accounting program, and his research primarily focuses on corporate disclosure and information intermediaries, using textual analysis methodologies to analyze how information transfers between corporations and external stakeholders. He has published his research in the Review of Accounting Studies.

Jesse M. Keenan is an associate professor and social scientist on the faculty of the School of Architecture at Tulane University. Keenan leads courses and seminars advancing the interdisciplinary fields of sustainable real estate and urban development. As a globally recognized thought leader, Keenan’s research focuses on the intersection of climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects of design, engineering, regulation, planning and financing. Keenan holds concurrent appointments as a member of the U.S.