Dr. Kira Banks has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves, others and systems of oppression for over 20 years. Her teaching, research and community involvement is rooted in the values of Black Psychology, which uplifts the interconnectedness and resilience of people and rejects an individual and deficit approach. Currently, Banks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Louis University, an APA-accredited Clinical Psychology doctoral program. Her research examines the experience of discrimination, its impact on mental health and intergroup relations. Her courses have ranged from Abnormal Psychology to the Psychology of Racism. Banks has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed outlets including American Psychological Association journals such as American Psychologist, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. She has also contributed to The Harvard Business Review and popular media outlets such as Huffington Post and The Atlantic.

Banks has developed a YouTube Channel to translate psychological concepts for lay people. She believes strongly that research should be useful and can inform our every day lives. One series on the channel is Raising Equity, which explores what it looks like to intentionality raise children with the knowledge and understanding of systemic inequities and to equip them to create an equitable society rather than accept the status quo. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan.

Jennifer Berdahl (PhD, Social Psychology) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the social psychology of gender and power at work, specializing in the relationship between organizational culture and sexual harassment. Berdahl regularly presents her research to professional, media, and academic audiences. She serves as an expert witness in individual and class action discrimination cases in both the U.S. and Canada.

Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media. Her first book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger. was named a Best Book of 2018 selection by NPR, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Psychology Today. A prolific writer and speaker, her articles have appeared in Time, Verge, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. In 2017, she was the co-recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report on free speech and the internet, and a Wikipedia Distinguished Service Award, for exemplary contributions to the advancement of public knowledge.

She is also the Director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project and an advocate for women's freedom of expression and expanded civic and political engagement. She currently serves on the national boards of the Women's Media Center and Women, Action and the Media, as well as on the advisory councils of the Center for Democracy and Technology, VIDA, and Common Sense Media.

Dolly Chugh is an award-winning, tenured professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. She studies the psychology of good people, or “bounded ethicality”. Dolly teaches MBA courses in leadership, management, and negotiations. Additionally, she has taught at a men’s prison through the NYU Prison Education Program at the Wallkill Correctional Facility, where she is currently running a book club. Dolly’s first book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias (HarperCollins, 2018) has received acclaim from Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, Billie Jean King, Carol Dweck, David Thomas, and Angela Duckworth. Her recent speaking engagements have included Starbucks’ corporate headquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Hollywood Commission on Sexual Harassment and Diversity chaired by Anita Hill. Dolly’s 2018 TED Talk was viewed more than 1.5 million times in its first month on-line and ranked as one of the 25 most popular TED Talks of the year. Dolly also writes a monthly column about race, gender, diversity, inclusion, and bias for Forbes.com.

Prior to becoming an academic, Dolly worked at Morgan Stanley, Time Inc., Scholastic, and Merrill Lynch. Dolly received a B.A. from Cornell University, where she earned a double major in Psychology and Economics and served as a two-time co-captain of the Varsity Tennis Team (1990); an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (1994); and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior / Social Psychology from Harvard University (2006).

Marianne Cooper is a Senior Research Scholar at the VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University. She is also an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. She was the lead researcher for Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. She is a contributing writer to the Atlantic and a LinkedIn influencer. She is an author of Lean In & McKinsey Women in the Workplace reports on the status of women in corporate America. She is an expert on gender, women’s leadership, diversity and inclusion, financial insecurity, and economic inequality. Her book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, examines how families are coping in an insecure age. Dr. Cooper regularly speaks, writes, and consults on these topics for companies, media outlets, and professional groups. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Hailed as "extraordinary" (DownBeat) and "most enchanting" (NPR), Ganavya's highly anticipated debut album, Aikyam: Onnu was described on The New York Times as “majestic debut album . . . a thick ephemera, like smoke as dark as ink, just coming off the fire.” A vocalist, scholar, and multi-instrumentalist, she has carved a niche for herself at the nexus of South Indian vocal styles and contemporary music. She has been featured on various projects, notably on the Quincy Jones-produced Tocororo, which hit #1 on jazz charts. She has worked alongside musicians from Placido Domingo to Zakir Hussain, who have all influenced her work. Ganavya holds graduate degrees in performance (Berklee College of Music), and ethnomusicology (UCLA). She is currently doing her PhD (Harvard), studying Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry. Recently, she became a fellow at The Carr Centre and, as a mentee of Carrie Mae Weems, will premiere a sound installation titled Daughter of a Temple alongside Weems in the upcoming 13th Biennale de Habana in Cuba.

Robin Ely is Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power, and identity. Examples of her research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs.

For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active faculty affiliation at the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University and her Bachelor’s degree from Smith College. She is a member of the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.

Peter Glick, PhD is the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of the Social Sciences at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. His scholarship focuses on biases and stereotyping. Dr. Glick presented at HBS’s first Gender and Work conference in 2013. As a visiting Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University, he co-designed the Kellogg School of Management’s first diversity management course. Along with Dr. Robert Livingston (Harvard Kennedy School), he developed anti-bias training for Airbnb.

Dr. Glick co-developed the warmth-competence model (with Susan T. Fiske, Princeton, and Amy Cuddy, Harvard), recognized as a "breakthrough idea" in the Harvard Business Review. His foundational work on benevolent sexism (with Fiske) received the Allport Prize for best paper on intergroup relations. Tested worldwide, both models represent revolutionary advances in understanding stereotypes and are among the most highly cited theories in social psychology. In addition to more than 80 articles and chapters, Dr. Glick has co-edited or co-authored three books, including the SAGE Handbook of Prejudice and The Social Psychology of Gender.

Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT is a scholar/activist whose research centers on the intersections between embodiment and social justice. Chair of the Somatic Studies doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and author of several books – including the recently published Embodied Social Justice – Rae teaches internationally on embodied microaggressions and somatic research methods.

Maureen A. Scully is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She studies how the ideology of meritocracy is invoked to legitimate inequality in the United States and thereby impedes efforts to address poverty. She also examines how “tempered radicals,” working from inside traditional corporate and workplace locations, can engage in change efforts that make a difference and improve social justice. Working with the Emerging Leaders Program at UMass Boston, she supports teams of mid-career professionals from the corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors who undertake projects to address affordable housing, economic development, and racial integration of communities. She works with the Center for Social Policy to facilitate inclusive change processes that involve multiple stakeholders from the community. She is a coauthor of a textbook widely used in MBA programs, Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes, now in its 3rd edition, and a coeditor of a volume on gendered approaches to work and change, Reader in Gender, Work and Organization. Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She has a PhD in Business (Organizational Behavior) from Stanford University, an MA in Sociology from Stanford University and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges.

Mario L. Small, Ph.D., is Grafstein Family Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Small has published numerous award-winning articles, edited volumes, and books on topics such as urban poverty, personal networks, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods. His books include Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio and Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, both of which received the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book, among several other honors. His latest book, Someone To Talk To, examines how people decide whom in their network to turn to when seeking a confidant.

Rajna Swaminathan is an acclaimed mrudangam artist and composer. She is a protegé of mrudangam legend, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, and tours regularly with several renowned Indian classical musicians and dancers. Since 2011, Rajna has been studying and collaborating with eminent musicians in New York's jazz and creative music scene, and performs extensively in projects led by Vijay Iyer, Amir ElSaffar, María Grand, and Ganavya Doraiswamy. Culling from her experience integrating multiple musical worlds, Rajna formed the ensemble RAJAS, which collectively explores new textural and improvisational horizons at the nexus of multiple musical perspectives. Rajna's debut album with RAJAS, titled Of Agency and Abstraction, will be released by Biophilia Records on April 26, 2019. She has been active as a composer-performer for dance and theatre works, working frequently with Ragamala Dance (Minneapolis) and playwright-actress Anu Yadav. Rajna is currently pursuing a PhD in Music (Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry) at Harvard University. Some of her scholarly interests, which also fuel her music making, include: perspectives on time, ethics, and virtuosity in music; the politics of art music as a category; and the embodied improvisations that shape music perception.