About the Project Team

Academy members from different academic disciplines developed and shape this project.

Michael J. Austin, Professor Emeritus, Social Welfare

Project Leader

Joan Bieder, Professor Emerita, Journalism

Thomas Gold, Professor Emeritus, Sociology (team member, 2021-23)

Tom Havens, Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies & History

Amy B. Joy, Professor Emerita, Nutritional Sciences (co-leader, 2021 - 2023)

Ruth Tringham, Professor Emerita, Anthropology (team member, 2021-2023)

Louise Comfort, Professor, Center on Technology, Data and Society, Arizona State University, and affiliated faculty with CITRIS

Daniel Melia, Professor Emeritus, Rhetoric