Sarah Feldstein Ewing is the Health Net, Inc. Chair in Alcohol and Substance Abuse at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Feldstein Ewing, a faculty member at the university since 2024, is a licensed clinical child and adolescent psychologist who specializes in adolescent substance abuse and its neural and behavioral mechanisms of change. In addition to her professorial appointment, she is vice chair for research for the department of psychiatry and director of the Adolescent Neuroscience Collaborative for Health Resilience.
Dr. Feldstein Ewing earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of New Mexico.
Megan Hershey is the Amy M. Ryan Endowed Professor at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. A professor of political science, Dr. Hershey has taught at Whitworth since 2011. Her scholarship centers on civil society in East Africa. Through her new endowed appointment, Dr. Hershey plans to travel to Kenya to meet with leaders of recent Gen Z protests and explore the gender dynamics of the movement, as well as the ways faith threads through the protestors’ efforts.
Dr. Whitworth holds a bachelor’s degree from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Karla Erickson is the Rosenfield Professor of Social Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa, where she serves as chair of the sociology department. As a feminist ethnographer of labor, Dr. Erickson studies interaction and community in market exchanges. Her most recent monograph is How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying (Temple University Press, 2013). Dr. Erickson is currently working on her next book, Messy Humans: A Sociology of Human/Machine Relations, which explores social effects and the automations and eliminations related to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Dr. Erickson earned her bachelor’s degree in women’s studies and English from Illinois Wesleyan University. She holds a master’s degree in liberal studies from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in American studies and feminist studies from the University of Minnesota.