Shahram Abbas (he/him) is a PhD candidate at the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a Fulbright Scholar with a M.A. in Philosophy from the University of North Texas. He is interested in the intersection of Philosophy, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Justice. As an environmental humanities scholar, he is interested in multiple themes, one being, critiquing the Anthropocene from a postcolonial perspective- the name itself, its implications, its politics, and its exclusions. His PhD project, still in its earlier stages, deals with the question of development and the proposed technoscientific solutions towards tackling the environmental crisis. Shahramviews technology, much like development and poverty in the last fifty years, as an instrument of surveillance mechanism which can be used to hegemonize and strengthen further the already highly colonized world we inhabit. Hence, anti-coloniality, anti-racism, and anti-capitalism are the common themes he will be indulging in with my project. Specifically, he will be studying what such global geopolitical narratives have done to dislocate, dispossess, and dehumanize the local and indigenous populations of Pakistan, especially with regards to the recent climate catastrophes in the form of floods.
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Matthew Altman-Suchocki (he/him) earned his B.A. in Elementary Education from Arizona State University in 2016, and a Master's in Philosophy in 2022. Matthew is currently a PhD student at Arizona State and is interested in Stoicism, the philosophy of death and dying, the philosophy of happiness/well-being, the philosophy of psychology, ethics, emotions, moral psychology, environmental ethics, and ancient philosophy. His overarching focus concerns how to put philosophy into practice to help address everything from social discord to the struggles of everyday living.
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Matthew-Jack Biley is an M.A. candidate in environmental philosophy at the University of Montana. He has recently been awarded a joint-honours degree in anthropology and philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, U.K., where his thesis developed Plato's version of the function argument into a new environmental ethics. A longstanding commitment to understanding the human relationship to the natural environment has driven Matthew Jack to evolutionary anthropology as well as ethics. He studies human consciousness: how it has evolved, its involvement in beliefs and perceptions, and how understanding its emergence can help us to streamline our behaviour and policies in the wake of the present environmental crisis.
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Matthew Johnson earned his B.A. in Psychology from Angelo State University and is currently working on his M.A. in Philosophy at Texas Tech University. His main interests are virtue ethics, ancient philosophy, and philosophy of mind. He is currently working on his thesis at TTU focusing on a Stoic approach to doing contemporary virtue ethics.
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Ella Marsh (she/her) Ella earned her B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from Hofstra University, her M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Her research interests include feminist epistemology, philosophy of the mind, and critical race theory. In her most recent work she considers the epistemological and ethical implications that we become subject to when fleeing objects we fear.
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Nash Meade received a double B.A. in English and philosophy from Middle Tennessee State University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Kentucky. His research interests include East Asian conceptions of nature and play in relation to modern issues related to games both physical and digital, as well as to how games, when understood through East Asian philosophy, can be utilized in pedagogical settings. Though he is yet to be working on a dissertation, he spends his spare time working with the university's Esports Lounge on academic initiatives, trying to put his theories into practice.
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Piyali Mitra (she/her) earned her B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from University of Calcutta, India. She also completed a course in religious study entitled Interreligious Understanding from Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. She is about to defend her PhD thesis from the University of Calcutta. Her thesis concerns identifying and evaluating the crucial arguments both for and against the human embryonic research and exploring the central question of the moral status of the embryo. Considering the subject-object dichotomy existing between the embryo and the mother the thesis tried making a critical appraisal whether reproductive rights hold ground than right to life.
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Lena Nowak-Laird (she/her) – Lena earned her B.A. in philosophy from the New College of Florida and her M.A. from the New School for Social Research, where she is now a Ph.D. student. She works at the nexus of feminist, decolonial, and environmental philosophy. The current plan for her dissertation is to investigate the concept of "body/territory" and the relationship between beings and land in relation to the question of freedom.
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Cori Persinger (she/her) Cori earned her B.A. in Philosophy from Pepperdine University, her M.A. in Philosophy from Colorado State, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Texas A&M. She works on issues at the intersection of animal ethics and social epistemology. Her research is currently focused on the ways that the unique perspectives and agencies of wildlife animals are ignored in management discourse and how this is interrelated with the epistemic marginalization of Indigenous traditions.
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​Rene Ramirez (he/him/they/them) Rene earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies from California State University Fullerton and is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include social-political philosophy, decolonial thought, indigenous history, and ethics. His dissertation works towards recognizing reparations for slavery and Land Back as entangled political projects.