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

Dr. Stribling is faculty with ASU’s Interplanetary Initiative and PI of the Space Exploration and Sustainable Development project. His research focuses on how engineered technologies contribute to global development.

Capistrano is based in Hainan University–Arizona State University International Tourism College in Haikou, China. He is interested in the sociology of tourism, biodiversity and tourism, and community development.

Abby Johnson is the Communications Specialist for SolarSPELL, a global education initiative providing digital libraries of localized content and the training to build information and digital literacy in offline environments.

Paulina Martin is a Program Director at ASU’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, focused on coral reef conservation and restoration programs.