Lori Teague

Lori C. Teague is an choreographer/activist who joined the dance faculty at Emory University in 1994.  She teaches modern, improvisation, choreography, dance literacy, dance pedagogy, contact improvisation, and interdisciplinary courses combining movement and math concepts. At the heart of her movement research is a drive to…

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Emorja Roberson

Emorja Roberson is a conductor, vocalist, and composer who specializes in classical and gospel music. After obtaining his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of North Florida (’13), he began his graduate experience at the University of Notre Dame. In 2017, Roberson…

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Emily Wall

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Emory University. My students and I make up CAV Lab where we focus on cognition and visualization. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in 2020. My research involves decision making using data visualization…

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W.J. Lofton

W.J. Lofton is a Black, Queer, Southern, American poet, interdisciplinary artist and author of A Garden for Black Boys Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust. His work has appeared in various journals, magazines, and film festivals, including TIME, wildness, Rust & Moth, the Urbanworld…

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Kelly Taylor Mitchell

Kelly Taylor Mitchell is an artist and educator based in Atlanta, GA. Kelly has completed residencies at Ranch Arts Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop and Atlanta Contemporary. Kelly has completed fellowships with The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (Working Artist Project…

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Loren Michael Mortimer

Loren Michael Mortimer is a historian, digital humanist, and community-engaged scholar. With intersecting research interests in Native American history, early American studies, political ecology, historical GIS, and transnational border studies, Mike’s interdisciplinary scholarship investigates sites of Indigenous resilience and self-determination rather than decline and dependence…

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Shawana S. Moore

Shawana S. Moore is a nationally recognized, board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner who specializes in providing women’s and gender-related care throughout the lifespan. Shawana served as the Director of the Women’s Health- Gender Related Nurse Practitioner Program at Jefferson College of Nursing from 2014-2022. Dr.…

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Nia Jackson

Nia Jackson, an Atlanta-based portrait artist born and raised in Jackson, MS, received her Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College. Her time there was a transformational period; Jackson found her artistic voice recalling her youth facing racial and cultural challenges. Her early work investigated the…

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Heather ‘Bird’ Harris

Heather ‘Bird’ Harris is an artist and history educator working in Atlanta and New Orleans. Through painting and social practice, she engages site-specific materials to explore the throughlines between land history and environmental crises, place and memory, as well as mothering in the face of…

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Khaalisha Ajala

Dr. Khaalisha Ajala, MD, MBA, FHM is an assistant professor of medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and a hospital medicine faculty physician at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA. She is a Small Group Advisor within the Semmelweis Society of the School of Medicine and Assistant Site Director of Education of Emory at…

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