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Hamsa Buvaraghan

Hamsa Buvaraghan is a Bay Area resident. The idea for her Fantasy book spawned from her experiences with Indonesian children when she volunteered with a nonprofit called Indonesia Street Children Organization. She writes multicultural fantasy novels that explore themes of racial diversity, courage, family, and friendship. Hamsa is a technology leader at Google where she leads AI Product Strategy. She also writes business technology books. She holds a Master of Business Administration with honors in global management and a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science. She has a certificate of executive leadership from Harvard Business School. Hamsa Buvaraghan is a Technology leader with over two decades of experience managing global product, solution and engineering teams. She has successfully led teams at Google, SAP, Microsoft that span across multi-billion-dollar enterprise products, cloud services, around Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), Data Analytics, Databases and more. She currently leads AI product Strategy for the entire Google Cloud Databases portfolio. In her role she spearheads the integration of AI and Gen AI into Google Cloud database portfolio, empowering enterprise customers to build groundbreaking AI-driven data applications and workflows. She was also the CEO/Founder of Inoviva, a healthcare startup. She is a published best-seller author of both business technology as well as Fantasy books. She holds a Master of Business Administration with honors in global management and a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science. She has a certificate of executive leadership from Harvard Business School.
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Karen Chan

Karen Chan is the founder of Gloo Books, a new publishing company making children's books for a more inclusive, just, and compassionate future. What started as an idea to write a single children’s book, turned into a larger vision to create a publishing company that makes books which more accurately reflect the world around us today. Karen is an entrepreneur and lawyer and lives in Los Angeles with her two little boys and husband.
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Keya Chatterjee

Keya Chatterjee is a climate and social justice activist. She was Executive Director of US Climate Action Network for almost ten years, and previously worked at WWF, USAID, and NASA as a climate change specialist. She is the Board President of the Sunrise Movement Education Fund and on the Boards of Sunrise Movement and Evergreen Action. She is a hyper-local elected official in DC, where she lives with her husband and son on the H Street Corridor. Keya authored the book The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby and holds a BS and MS from UVA in Environmental Science.
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Suzette Chaumette

Suzette Chaumette is a public health executive leader and the founder of Food Indy, a local nonprofit that educates people about growing small scale food forests, and the host of The Food Indy Podcast.
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Adrienne Chung

Adrienne Chung is the author of Organs of Little Importance (Penguin 2023), a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her work has been published in The Yale Review, The Chicago Review, Joyland, Diagram, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, she teaches at the Berlin Writers' Workshop.
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Jane Hirshfield

Writing “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine), JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of ten collections and is one of American poetry's central spokespersons for concerns of the biosphere. Hirshfield's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s also the author of two now-classic collections of essays on the craft of poetry, and edited and co-translated four books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield's work, which has been translated into seventeen languages, appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.
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Bill Ong Hing

Bill Ong Hing is Professor of Law and Migration Studies at the University of San Francisco, and Professor of Law and Asian American Studies Emeritus, at UC Davis. Previously on the law faculties at Stanford University and Golden Gate University, he founded the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco and directs their Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic. Professor Hing teaches Immigration Law & Policy, Migration Studies, Rebellious Lawyering, and Evidence, is the author of 6 books, and was co-counsel in the US Supreme Court asylum precedent-setting case INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987).
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Malcolm Harris

Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland.
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Alex Hanna

Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA in Sociology from Purdue University, and an MS and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hanna has published widely in top-tier venues across the social sciences, including the journals Mobilization, American Behavioral Scientist, and Big Data & Society, and top-tier computer science conferences such as CSCW, FAccT, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and the Scholars Council for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She is a receipient of the Wisconsin Alumni Association's Forward Award, has been included on FastCompany's Queer 50 and Go Magazine's Women We Love lists, and has been featured in the Cal Academy of Sciences New Science exhibit, which highlights queer and trans scientists of color. With Dr. Emily M. Bender, Alex is working on The AI Con (Forthcoming Spring 2025, Harper Books), a book about AI and the hype around it. The two also run the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series, playfully and wickedly tearing apart AI hype for a live audience online on Twitch and on their podcast.
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Ericka Huggins

Ericka Huggins is an educator, Black Panther Party member, former political prisoner, human rights advocate, and poet. For over 50 years, Ericka has used her life experiences in service to community. From 1973-1981, she was director of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School. From 1990-2004 Ericka managed HIV/AIDS Volunteer and Education programs. She also supported innovative mindfulness programs for women and youth in schools, jails and prisons. Ericka was professor of Sociology and African American Studies from 2008 through 2015 in the Peralta Community College District. From 2003 to 2011 she was professor of Women and Gender Studies at California State Universities- East Bay and San Francisco. She currently curates conversations focused on the individual and collective work of becoming equitable in all areas of our daily lives. Additionally, she facilitates workshops on the benefit of self care in sustaining social change. Ericka is co-author, with photographer Stephen Shames, of the book, Comrade Sisters-Women of the Black Panther Party, published in fall 2022.