Arina Melkozernova has PhD from the Comparative Culture and Language program at SILC, ASU. Her research on foodways, biosemiotics, and resilience brings humanities, art, science, and non-Western knowledges together.

Adamson is President's Professor of environmental humanities in the Department of English and Founding Director of the UNESCO BRIDGES Flagship Hub at the Global Futures Laboratory.

Vicenti Carpio is a citizen of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and of Laguna and Isleta Pueblo heritage. Current projects explore institutional intersections of Japanese Internment and American Indian urban relocation policy.

Prof. Vitullo studies medieval, early modern, and contemporary Italian cultures. Her current community-based scholarship and teaching focus on how to preserve traditional foodways for healthier & more sustainable futures.

Mara investigates Irish literature and film. Her second research stream includes research in health humanities and medical rhetoric.

Estève Giraud oversees research projects at the Swette Center relating to organic and urban agriculture, policy interventions, food security, food sovereignty and food systems resilience.

Sara El-Sayed leads the Swette Center's collaborations with Arizona producers and stakeholders to advance organic agriculture and cultivate a stronger local food system.

Carly Wyman leads the Swette Center's research and partnership efforts in Hawaiʻi with a focus on food security, sovereignty and sustainability.

Melissa K. Nelson (Anishinaabe) is a Global Futures Professor of Indigenous Conservation & Sustainability at Arizona State University and Professor Emerita of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University.