Dr. Jessica Zychowicz is the Director of Fulbright Ukraine & Institute of International Education, Kyiv Office. She is the author of the award-winning book Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine (U-Toronto Press 2020), editor of Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus (Vernon Press 2023). She is also the author of numerous articles, chapters, and other texts. She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine, a Research Fellow at U-Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs, a Visiting Scholar at U-Alberta, and a Visiting Scholar Uppsala University in Sweden. She holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan and BA from U.C. Berkeley. For more information: https://www.jes-zychowicz.com/

Dr. Rosalyn LaPier is an award winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist. She/they work within Indigenous communities to revitalize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and to strengthen public policy for Indigenous languages. She/they are the author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis.

To learn more about Rosalyn, please see her personal website.