Roni Porat is an assistant professor in the Political Science and the International Relations Departments at the Hebrew University, Israel. Her research examines micro- and meso-level forces that motivate behavior and societal change. Her work is concerned with reducing prejudice and discrimination, as well as promoting equality. Dr. Porat is the recipient of the Azriely Faculty Fellowship and was named as an APS Rising Star.
Ana Gantman is an assistant professor of psychology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She has published 20+ peer-reviewed papers and chapters which have been cited ~600 times (h = 12, i10 = 11). Dr. Gantman’s lab investigates how our moral values tune our understanding of the law, public policy, and our curiosity and attention. Dr. Gantman received the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and was named an APS Rising Star.
Seth A. Green is a nonresident fellow at the Kahneman-Treisman Center at Princeton and an affiliate of the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford. He has previously contributed to two meta-analyses and coauthored two papers on computational reproducibility. He is broadly interested in the intersection between emerging technology and scientific credibility. Seth has a master’s in political science from Columbia.
John-Henry Pezzuto is a management PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. His current research is on beliefs, misperceptions about others, and gender.
Elizabeth Levy Paluck is a professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Policy School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her research is concerned with the reduction of prejudice and conflict, including ethnic and political conflict, youth conflict in schools, and violence against women. She uses large-scale field experiments to test interventions that target individuals’ perceived norms and behavior about conflict and tolerance, including mass media and peer-to-peer interventions. Professor Paluck is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and has been the recipient of the Princeton University Graduate Mentor award and the Cialdini Award for field research.
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Elise C. Lopez, DrPH, MPH, is the assistant director of the Relationship Violence Program in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. She has worked primarily on programs that focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions related to sexual violence, sexual health, adolescent substance abuse, and trauma-informed care. Current projects include developing and implementing interventions for students found responsible of sexual misconduct, and evaluation of a bar staff bystander intervention training program. She was the recipient of the inaugural Youth, Family and Community Evidence-Based Practice Award from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2007. In 2016, she received the Abstract of the Year Award from the Law Section of the American Public Health Association. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Psychologist, City University of New York Law Review, and Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Mary P. Koss, PhD, is a Regents’ Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. She published the first national study on sexual assault among college students in 1987, and in 2022 she published a 30-year prevalence comparison in new national data that demonstrate sexual exploitation occurs more frequently now than then. Her ongoing work evaluates a sexual assault bystander prevention program focusing on staff of alcohol serving establishments (Safer Bars). Her credentials document nearly 200 peer review publications and consultations with national and international health organizations and governments including current membership on the USAID Inter-Agency Taskforce on Sexual Misconduct. Her awards include the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy (2000), Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology (2017), the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award for Sustained Contributions to Psychology of Women (2020), and the Trailblazer Award (2022) from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative in Johannesburg, South Africa.
