Dr. Eva Monterrosa is a nutritionist and scientist with over 15 years of research and professional experience in food choice and human nutrition. In her current role as Sr. Program Manager for Demand Creation and Behavior Change at GAIN, she provides thought leadership on consumption habits and consumer preferences. Dr. Monterrosa’s expertise are in the domains of food choice/customs, consumer insight research, social marketing, intervention design and planning, monitoring and evaluation. She holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Metabolism from the University of Alberta, Canada and PhD in Nutrition from Cornell University.

Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Design Studies at North Carolina State University. Dr. Noel practices design through emancipatory, critical and anti-hegemonic lenses, focusing on equity, social justice and the experiences of people who are often excluded from design research. Her research also highlights the work of designers outside of Europe and North America as an act of decolonizing design. She also attempts to promote greater critical awareness among designers and design students by introducing critical theory concepts and vocabulary into the design studio e.g. through The Designer’s Critical Alphabet. She practices primarily in the area of social innovation, education and public health. She is co-Chair of the Pluriversal Design Special Interest Group of the Design Research Society.

Ruth Schmidt is an associate professor at the Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology whose work sits at the intersection of behavioral science and humanity-centered design. Her research projects and writing focus primarily on combining strategic design methodologies, approaches to complex systems, and behavioral insights to inform effective and ethical solutions to applied commercial, academic, and public policy challenges. She also develops new tools and conceptual models to help practitioners solve these kinds of challenges more systematically.

Gregg Sparkman is a postdoctoral research associate in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His research focuses on psychology and social change, including research on scalable interventions to address social problems related to the environment, health, and social inequity. He examines motivations to change behavior and how to advocate for change, including the role of social influence, identity, moral reasoning, and beliefs about whether change is possible. Much of his work explores how learning about trends in norms over time and perceiving others' change can catalyze personal change. You can learn more about his work, here.