ELIZA CHANDLER is an assistant professor in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University where her teaching and research interests explore the cultivation of disability art in Canada. From 2014–2016, Chandler was dually appointed as the Artistic Director at Tangled Art + Disability and the postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University. She is the founding Artistic Director of Tangled Art Gallery, Canada's first art gallery dedicated to showcasing disability art and advancing accessible curatorial practices, and the co‐director of the community arts project, Project Creative Users. (eliza.chandler@ryerson.ca)
NADINE CHANGFOOT is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Her research is collaborative, addressing and producing art at the intersection of politics, arts activism, and community–campus engagement that include methods and ethics of research creation for digital storytelling and complex cross‐sectoral partnerships that include the state, nonprofit sector, aggrieved communities, and the academy. Nadine partners with disability, First Nations, and older‐adult‐identified women to screen their digital stories to audiences in health‐care, educational, and advocacy settings, and to create knowledge for social change at the edges of the academy. (nadinechangfoot@trentu.ca)
MYISHA CHERRY is a PhD candidate in the philosophy department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests are at the intersection of moral psychology and political philosophy. She is currently a Visiting Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics and a Santayana Fellow in the Harvard University Department of Philosophy. Myisha is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, a philosophy podcast, and has written publicly about political emotions and justice for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Huffington Post. She is currently co‐editing The Moral Psychology of Anger, with Owen Flannigan, under contract at Rowman and Littlefield. (mcherr4@uic.edu)
STACY CLIFFORD SIMPLICAN is a senior lecturer in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). (stacy.c.simplican@vanderbilt.edu)
REMY DEBES is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has published a wide range of articles and book chapters in the areas of ethics and the history of ethics, with an emphasis on Scottish Enlightenment moral theory, human dignity, and moral psychology. His own work on empathy includes, most recently, “From Einfühlung to Empathy: Sympathy in Early Phenomenology and Psychology” (In Sympathy: A History, ed. Eric Schliesser. Oxford University Press, 2015). He is the editor of Dignity: A History (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) and co‐editor of Ethical Sentimentalism (with Karsten Stueber, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).(rdebes@memphis.edu)
SERGIO A. GALLEGOS ORDORICA is an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department of Metropolitan State University of Denver. He obtained his BA in philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and his PhD at the CUNY‐Graduate Center. His main areas of research are in philosophy of science and Latin American philosophy (with a focus on race and gender issues). (sgalle36@msudenver.edu)
LORI GRUEN is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. She is also a professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and coordinator of Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books, including Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2011), Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (Oxford, 2012), The Ethics of Captivity (Oxford, 2014), and Entangled Empathy (Lantern, 2015). She has published extensively on topics in animal ethics, ecofeminism, and practical ethics more broadly and is currently thinking about intersections of race, gender, and species. She is a fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics, a faculty fellow at Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Animals and Public Policy, and was the first chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for Prison Education at Wesleyan. (lgruen@wesleyan.edu)
LEIF HANCOX‐LI is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California. They started out as a physicist, then a philosopher of physics, before the whiteness and maleness of graduate school made them realize that maybe they should not pretend that academia is a disembodied enterprise based on intellectual merit. They hope in the long term to work toward a technical but feminist philosophy of physics. (bihuili@usc.edu)
CHARLES HICKS received his PhD in English from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2015. He currently serves as a lecturer and undergraduate advisor in the Department of English at UT Arlington where he teaches courses in rhetoric, literary theory, and contemporary American fiction. His recent scholarship focuses on representations of motherhood in science‐fiction and horror film and literature. He is currently working on an article examining the relationship between mothers and sons in the “slasher” genre. (chicks@uta.edu)
REBEKAH JOHNSTON is an associate professor of philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University; her research and teaching focus on feminist philosophy, queer philosophy, and ancient Greek philosophy. She has published in journals such as Social Theory and Practice, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, and Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science. Her current research focuses on autonomy and relations of co‐constitution and on wittiness as a virtue. (rjohnston@wlu.ca)
KIRSTY LIDDIARD is currently a research associate in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this post, she was the inaugural Ethel Louise Armstrong Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Kirsty's research explores sexual and intimate life, disability, and ableism. (k.liddiard@sheffield.ac.uk)
DIANA TIETJENS MEYERS is a professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She has held the Laurie Chair at Rutgers University and the Ellacuría Chair of Social Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago. She currently works in four main areas of philosophy: philosophy of action, feminist ethics, aesthetics, and human rights. She has published five monographs. The most recent is Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights. Being Yourself: Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life is a collection of her essays. Her most recent edited collection is Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights. (diana.meyers@uconn.edu)
INGRID MÜNDEL is the managing director and a senior research associate at Re•Vision/REDLAB, a leading‐edge arts and social‐science research center at the University of Guelph. She is an experienced community‐based researcher and educator with interest in art‐based approaches to community dialogue and social change. Mündel's research uses the notion of “storytelling for social change” as a starting point to explore, through Canadian literary culture, the complicated links between social‐justice movements and the current neoliberal capitalist framework. She has worked on projects that link university research agendas with social service, arts, and activist communities, organizations, and issues. (imundel@uoguelph.ca)
ROXANNE MYKITIUK, JSD, is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and teaches disability, health, and family law. She is the director of the Disability Law Intensive program. Roxanne is an active, engaged, and collaborative researcher. She is the author/co‐author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books investigating the legal, ethical, and social implications of reproductive and genetic technologies and the legal construction and regulation of embodiment and disability. Recently her research has begun to create and investigate arts‐based methods—digital stories and drama‐based narratives—as a means of challenging and re‐representing experiences and conceptions of disability and normalcy. (rmykitiuk@osgoode.yorku.ca)
CECILIE BASBERG NEUMANN is an associate professor of sociology at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Her research interests include ethics of care, power, gender, class, and institutional conditions for action within contexts such as prisons, public health services, child welfare services, and fashion modeling. She is currently working on a monograph on the fashion‐modeling business. (cecilie.neumann@hioa.no)
JESSICA PAYSON is a lecturer in philosophy at Bentley University, where she specializes in ethics, feminist theory, and global justice. She received a doctorate in philosophy from Binghamton University. Her research aims to examine the normative relations holding between individuals and unjust structures; her work has been published in several scholarly journals including Social Theory and Practice and International Journal of Applied Philosophy. (jpayson@bentley.edu)
TUIJA PULKKINEN is a professor of gender studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research is in history of philosophy, political thought, and contemporary feminist theory. She is the author of The Postmodern and Political Agency (1996/2000), and she edited (with Kimberly Hutchings) Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone? (2010), and (with Antu Sorainen) Siveellisyydestä seksuaalisuuteen—poliittisen käsitteen historia [From Sittlichkeit to Sexuality—the History of a Political Concept] (2011). She is currently working on a project on the politics of philosophy in contemporary feminist theory. (tuija.pulkkinen@helsinki.fi)
CAROL V. A. QUINN is an associate professor of philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She was the first coordinator of the Women's Studies' Department's genders and sexualities minor. She holds a PhD in philosophy from Syracuse University. Her main areas of research are in human rights, feminist philosophy, and feminist bioethics. She also writes philosophical fiction. Her first novel, The Rashomon Tea and Sake Shop, was published in April 2016. (cquinn10@msudenver.edu)
CARLA RICE is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Guelph. A leader in the field of embodiment studies in Canada, her research focuses on representations and experiences of difference across diverse sectors and in activist arts. She founded ReVision, a multimedia lab that mobilizes the arts in collaboration with misrepresented and aggrieved communities to create deep understandings of difference that disrupt dominant narratives and open possibilities. Notable books include Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain (2013), and Becoming Women: The Embodied Self in Image Culture (2014). (carlar@uoguelph.ca)
JEN RINALDI is an assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She earned a PhD in critical disability studies at York University, where she studied how disability diagnostic technologies affect reproductive decision‐making. She completed her MA in philosophy at the University of Guelph, where her interest was in constitutional protections of same‐sex marriage. Her current work engages with narrative and arts‐based methodologies to deconstruct eating‐disorder recovery, and to reimagine recovery in relation to queer community. Rinaldi also works in collaboration with an arts‐based collective that explores and retells traumatic histories of institutionalization. (jen.rinaldi@uoit.ca)
SARAH SMITH RAINEY received her PhD from The Ohio State University. She is currently an assistant professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, and in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. Smith Rainey does interdisciplinary research in the areas of feminist and queer theory, gender, health and disability, qualitative methods, popular culture and film, sexual identity, and pedagogy. (sasarah@bgsu.edu)
KATIE STOCKDALE is a residential dissertation fellow in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, and a PhD candidate in philosophy at Dalhousie University. She is in the late stages of writing her dissertation on hope as part of the Hope & Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Katie's work explores the nature and value of hope, the relationship between hope and moral anger in response to injustice, and the potential role of hope in struggles against oppression. (kes329@cornell.edu)
REBECCA TUVEL is an assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She specializes in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and animal/environmental ethics. Her work has been previously published in journals such as Hypatia, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and Societies: Special Issue on Alimentary Relations, Animal Relations. She recently co‐edited a volume on the work of French feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva, forthcoming with SUNY Press. She is currently writing a book‐length manuscript on transracialism. (tuvelr@rhodes.edu)