Melissa Nelson, professor of Indigenous sustainability, researches biocultural heritage and environmental justice, intercultural solidarity, and the renewal and celebration of community health and cultural arts.

PhD Candidate, SFIS; Research Associate, CSI, Faculty Associate, Fulton Schools of Engineering. Bestselling author of the Simulation Hypothesis.

Levin is a theoretical physicist and fiction author. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics. He is interested in cosmology, black holes, quantum gravity, and theology. He writes science and philosophical fiction.

Asheley R. Landrum ​is an associate professor and science communication researcher at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.