Jia Zhang is a graduate of Rhodes Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design. She is a founding member of a Brooklyn based grocery cafe focussing on local, seasonal American food products and Cuisine.

Mihir Desai holds a Grand Diploma in Culinary Arts from the French Culinary Institute and experienced in numerous molecular and experimental culinary techniques. He was a speaker at the Experimental Cuisine Collective’s February 2010 meeting on emerging molecular | experimental techniques in the kitchen and an invited mixologist at the Umami Festival’s CMYK Tasteologie* Event #1, March 2010. Outside of his culinary experience, Mihir Desai also obtained his BA in Political Science, MA in International Policy Systems from Stanford University, as well as a PHD in Political Philosophy from the Kennedy School of Government from Harvard University.

Using food as a catalyst for interesting dialogue around issues of the social, cultural and environmental, Cathrine Kramer, Graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, is the proud owner of a nano ice cream van, where ice cream is employed to engage the public with the good, the bad and the ugly of future technologies.

Una Chaudhuri embraces an interdisciplinary approach to the history of theater and modern drama through a multi-cultural lens. Her work on Eco-Drama considers the intersection of the planet and performance art. Chaudhuri’s current research on zooësis, the representation of animals in contemporary media, culture, and performance. Chaudhuri’s work has spearheaded ecological awareness in theatre. Chaudhuri received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
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Donna J. Haraway is a professor and chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. She is the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), Modest Witness@Second Millenium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (1997, Ludwig Fleck Prize), The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003), and When Species Meet (2008).
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Gail was born and raised in the Bronx, and she attended the Fierello La Guardia High School of Music and Art. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University. Currently, she is Executive Director of the Bronx River Art Center. Nathan has been an artist, educator and arts administrator for over 30 years, and she has been an outspoken advocate for the value of the arts for underprivileged urban communities.
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Richard C. Lewontin (born 1929) is a pre-eminent evolutionary biologist, geneticist, social commentator, and professor emeritus at Harvard University. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the notion of using techniques from molecular biology such as gel electrophoresis to apply to questions of genetic variation and evolution. In a pair of 1966 papers co-authored with J.L. Hubby in the journal Genetics, Lewontin helped set the stage for the modern field of molecular evolution.
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Mark Bain, Sturgeon General, is a quantitative aquatic biologist and ecosystem scientist that conducts both basic research and studies driven by current management issues. His specialties are fish and macroinvertebrates in lakes, streams and estuaries. Statistics, modeling, and biological assessment are heavily used in most research and teaching. His current research is testing complex systems theory in bay and lagoon ecosystems around Lake Ontario, describing the behavior and the ecology of sturgeon, planning ecosystem restoration and conservation, and assessing impacts to the Hudson River caused by the World Trade Center destruction.
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Jonathan Laventhol is a visiting research scientist and master design advisor at the Environmental Health Clinic at NYU. He asks the tough (and practical) questions, which we try to avoid, and is a more than vital member of our Advisory Board. He is a leading practitioner in design and technology management with long experience in complex projects including work at the Millennium Dome in London and exhibition work for Ford, Intel and other clients around the world.
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