Boston College

Megan Loumagne Ulishney is an  Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College and is also the Director of the Theology and the Environment Minor at Boston College. She is a Catholic feminist theologian working at the intersection of systematic theology, the sciences (usually evolutionary biology and psychology), and feminist philosophy and theology. Loumagne Ulishney’s first monograph is entitled Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference and was published with Oxford University Press (March 2023). It was a finalist for the International Society for Science and Religion’s 2023 Book Prize.

Boston University

Sandra McEvoy is a Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Boston University. McEvoy’s primary research interests include the dynamics of political change including women’s participation in political violence; and gender-focused strategies that incorporate perpetrators of political violence into long-term conflict resolution strategies. She has written extensively on the Northern Irish conflict including, the gendered motivations for women's participation in political violence and the impact that such participation has on notions of men and masculinity. McEvoy’s secondary area of interest explores the vulnerabilities of LGBT+ populations during conflict and natural disasters. Her current project is as coeditor of The Oxford Handbook on Global LGBT Politics (expected fall 2019). The Handbook is one of the earliest collections that uses sexuality as a critical lens through which to understand global politics.

Brandeis University

V Varun Chaudhry (they/he) is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on gender, race, sexuality, and class in the United States. His research and teaching focuses on the institutionalization of racialized and gendered categories and logics in US-based nonprofit and funding organizations, as well as the US academy. V's writing spans academic scholarship, organizational training materials, and public scholarship. Their writing appears in GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Signs: journal of women and culture in society; Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ); Feminist Theory; Feminist Anthropology; differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies; American Anthropologist; Critical Inquiry; and The Foundation Review. V is the primary author of Transforming Inclusion: An Organizational Guide, published by the Leeway Foundation in 2018 as a resource for cultural organizations, foundations, and feminist and LGBTQ advocacy organizations to better affirm transgender and gender nonconforming people; Out in Research: A Guide to LGBTQ Market Research, published by Suzy, Incorporated in 2021; and Funding Trans Resilience, based on ethnographic work with the Trans Resilience Fund (a project of the Gender Justice Fund in Philly), in 2022; and a forthcoming 10-year retrospective for the Trans Justice Funding Project. V has also conducted community-based research and consulted with Bread and Roses Community Fund in Philadelphia.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rachel E. Molko is a lecturer in MIT's Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program. She earned her Ph.D. in English in 2023 from Northeastern University, specializing in writing and rhetoric. Her research centers feminist rhetorics in popular culture with a focus on rhetorics of femininity. Since 2016, she has held teaching and administrative positions in writing programs at MIT, Northeastern University, and University of Central Florida. Leading up to her Ph.D., she earned a Bachelor’s in Editing, Writing, and Media and a Master’s in Rhetoric and Composition. Outside of work, she enjoys watching Jeopardy! with her husband, practicing hot vinyasa, and spending time with her cats. Her work is featured in Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition.

Northeastern University

Nicole N. Aljoe is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is co-Director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London, and Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. Her research and teaching focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literatures with specializations in slave narrative, early novels about race, and digital humanities. The author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1836 (Palgrave 2012) and co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (UVA Press 2014) as well as A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (Palgrave/Springer 2018), her essays have appeared in African American Review, American Literary History, Anthurium, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Journal of Early American Literature, and Women’s Studies.

Tufts University

Lily Mengesha is is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, and Affiliate faculty in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora. Her research and teaching live at the intersection of critical Indigenous studies, gender and sexuality studies and performance studies. Her first book, Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across the Indigenous Americas (NYU Press, 2025), is a transnational study of Indigenous artists that stages the urgency of embodied ways of knowing amidst the colonial decimation of culture, life, and land. Revealing the long and interconnected patterns of feminicide across the Americas, Mengesha demonstrates how contemporary feminist artists use performance to sustain life amid devastating attempts at extermination. The book argues for dreaming as a tool to seek accountability for harm, revise colonial history, and manifest Indigenous futures. You can find her other writing in the Journal for Dramatic Theory and Criticism, ASAP Journal, Canadian Theatre Review and The Drama Review.

Dr. Mengesha's research has been supported by various awards, grants and fellowships including the New England Humanities Consortium, the Center for Humanities at Tufts, MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the American Society for Theatre Research, the Joukowsky Family Foundation, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Pembroke Center for the Research and Teaching of Women, the Social Science Research Council and Mellon Mays Foundation. She currently serves on the advisory board of Tufts’ Women Gender and Sexuality Studies program, as well as a member of the Executive Committee for the American Society of Theatre Research.

University of Massachusetts Boston

Suisui Wang is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. An interdisciplinary scholar of feminist and queer STS, Suisui’s work situates health, technology, and data in nexuses of activism and governance and as sites of community-based analysis, participation, and action. Their current book project, Just Listen: Hotline Activisms and Technopolitics of Crisis Listening, examines crisis hotline activisms by youth, women, LGBTQ people, and suicide preventionists as media genealogies of listening across differences of age, gender, sexuality, and disability. Undoing the ideological doctrine of active listening, Just Listen develops conceptual tools that attune to listening’s institutional, affective, epistemic, and performative dimensions.