Alicia is a systems leader driving change in sustainability, economic development, and the circular economy. She mobilizes movements, secures investments, and builds coalitions to accelerate bold, science-driven solutions.

Brooks is the Director of the Global Sport Institute at ASU. As a scholar, he is primarily interested in youth and sport; inequality in sport, coaching and leadership; and community based sports interventions.

A groundbreaking sustainability leader innovating solutions for communities, governments, and organizations.

Dr. Connor uses causal inference and big data to study how places shape human development, social inequality, and the transmission of advantages and disadvantages over extended historical periods.

Interested in economic geography and development, competitiveness policy, firm innovation and entrepreneurship, high-tech clusters, sustainability, China.