Luann Drolc Fortune, MA, PhD, LMT, NCBTMB is Faculty and Coordinator of the Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) PhD Mindful Leadership in Healthcare Specialization in Saybrook's College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences. She has a BA in Interdisciplinary Social Science, and MA and PhD in Human Development. She is a former fellow at Fielding University's Institute of Social Innovation, and served on the executive committees for the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP) and the Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences (SPHS), and on the Program Plan Committee for IM4US (Integrative Medicine for Underserved). She has extensive experience in organizational development in the private sector, and operated a wellness and somatic therapy practice in Washington, DC for over 20 years.

Dionne Clabaugh, Ed.D. has worked in education since 1982 and in higher education since 1999. In parent participation P-5th grade schools she was a teacher, director, volunteer, and school board member. In teacher education departments at Universities and Community Colleges she was a faculty member, department chair, grant coordinator, program reviewer, faculty adviser, and mentor to faculty and students. Dr. Clabaugh earned a bachelor's in music therapy from the University of the Pacific, a Masters in organization development with emphasis in higher education and a Doctorate in Learning and Instruction for higher education, both from the University of San Francisco. Her teaching style and research are focused on designing highly engaging learning experiences across the lifespan, using constructivist and dialogue-based strategies in a collaborative and autonomy-supportive learning environment, to promote deep learning and far transfer.

Jared Carter graduated from Vermont Law School in 2009 where he received an Equal Justice Foundation Fellowship to litigate a constitutional challenge to U.S. Treasury Department Regulations prohibiting travel to Cuba. A veteran attorney and advocate for social, legal and economic justice, Professor Carter spent a year as law clerk to Justices William Leaphart, Jim Rice and Jim Nelson at the Montana Supreme Court. As an Assistant Professor of Law, Professor Carter teaches a range of courses including: Legal Activism, Appellate Advocacy, First Amendment Law, and Natural Resources Law. In addition, he has developed numerous study away courses that take students to Cuba to learn about the Cuban legal system. An active member of the Vermont bar, Jared also directs the Vermont Community Law Center, litigating constitutional and consumer rights issues in state and federal court. Outside his legal work, Professor Carter is an avid outdoors-person—backpacking, canoeing and fly-fishing in the warmer months, and cross-country skiing in the winter. Despite the fact that Vermont is landlocked, Professor Carter also enjoys surfing and does so in the frigid waters of the New England coastline.

Dr. Alisha DeWalt holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology and completed her doctorate degree in business psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Her dissertation was focused on exploring global competency and its impact on individuals entering the business field which ignited her passion for global education and comprehensive internationalization. Dr. DeWalt has been employed with The Chicago School of Professional Psychology for eight years and has served in a variety of positions focused primarily on improving operational excellence, advancing online program quality through implementing innovative technology, and driving forward international initiatives through TCSPP Global. Currently, Dr. DeWalt serves as the Associate Campus Dean of the highly successful online campus. In this role, Dr. DeWalt implements the online vision plan of technological innovation, drives forward undergraduate programming, and coordinates the university’s strategic plan. As the TCSPP Global Lead, Dr. DeWalt oversees international admissions for the university, and furthers the mission of TCSPP Global to prepare professionals to live, thrive, and serve in a diverse and global world.

Gustavo M. Padilla is a Doctor of Social Science with an academic background in Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis. He is currently interested in the interdisciplinary fields of Social Gerontology, mainly oriented to qualitative and critical approaches. Dr. Padilla is a full-time Faculty member at CETYS University, Tijuana campus (Mexico), where he teaches seminars on Psychopathology and Society, and Social Gerontology. Dr. Padilla is also an active member of the Mexican Association of Suicidology (Asociación Mexicana de Suicidología).

Dr. Ian Towers is a Professor at SRH in Germany. His research is interdisciplinary and international by nature. Dr. Towers is interested in the changing nature of work and how this is having an impact on employment relationships, in particular, the rapid the growth in precarious employment relationships and their effect on organisations, individuals and on (self-)organising.

Dr. Towers is also interested in how management ideas travel and are reflected in cultural products such as television dramas, films, literature and art.

David Lackland Sam (PhD) is a clinical psychologist and professor of cross-cultural psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway. Sam is a first-generation Ghanaian Norwegian who migrated to Norway soon after obtaining a B.Sc. Hons. degree in psychology at the University of Ghana. Sam divides his position at the University of Bergen, between the Department of Psychosocial Science (Faculty of Psychology) and the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (Faculty of Medicine), where he has served as a professor for 20 years. Sam also has adjunct positions at the University of Ghana, and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, USA. Sam has been a visiting professor at several universities in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, and the United States. 

Natalie Adams- Adonis comes from Cape Town, South Africa and is a Senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornerstone Institute. She is currently doing her PhD in the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at the University of the Western Cape, with a research focus on intervention mapping for mothers in resource constrained contexts. Natalie completed her Masters in Psychological Research (UCT), a quantitative study exploring parental involvement and child adjustment within different family structures. Her training includes in depth interviewing, programme evaluation and monitoring, gender in research analysis and design, research methods and statistics. Natalie’s research interests includes perinatal development, maternal mental health, children, education, continuous trauma, community social justice and poverty. She is a registered practitioner with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and runs a small private practise where clients are seen therapeutically both individually and in groups. 

Dr Claudia Dolezal is a Professor in Tourism at the IMC University of Applied Sciences in Krems, Austria. Prior to her current role she was a Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Westminster, UK, and a Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her background is in tourism, international development and social anthropology with a geographical focus on the region of Southeast Asia and more recently Latin America and Europe. Her areas of expertise are within tourism and sustainable development, tourism’s contribution to the UN SDGs, tourism and social inequalities, as well as community-based tourism, people’s empowerment and qualitative research methods. Dr Dolezal is a keen speaker at international conferences and part of the editorial board of the Austrian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS). She has been a visiting scholar at various universities around the world, including, for example, the University of the South Pacific Fiji, Al-Farabi National University Kazakhstan, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral Ecuador, as well as a recent UNWTO sustainable tourism PhD course at the Universidad de Anáhuac in Mexico.