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Jamer Hunt collaboratively designs open and adaptable frameworks for participation that respond to emergent cultural conditions—in education, organizations, exhibitions, and for the public. He is the Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives at The New School (2016-present), where he was founding director of the graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design (2009-2015). He is the author of Not to Scale: How the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable, and the Unthinkable Becomes Possible (Grand Central Publishing, March 2020), a book that repositions scale as a practice-based framework for analyzing broken systems and navigating complexity. He has published over twenty articles on the poetics and politics of design, including for Fast Company and the Huffington Post, and he is co-author, with Meredith Davis, of Visual Communication Design(Bloomsbury, 2017).

As a Designer, Josh Lovejoy's approach is to address the heart of people’s needs, whether that’s through product development, fundamental research, or organizational practices. He is motivated by a restless curiosity about how our actions as individuals might better align with our values, especially those values that too-often "go without saying”. Josh currently works at Amazon Prime Video, where he focuses on the UX of AI for personalization systems. Previously, he was Head of Design for Microsoft’s Ethics & Society team, led UX for Google’s People + AI Research initiative, architected Amazon’s first unified design system for online shopping, and co-founded an eSports media startup called Giant Realm.

Don Norman is famous for “Norman Doors”: doors that are confusing to open. He keeps changing fields. First, as an electrical engineer, then a mathematical psychologist, which became Cognitive Psych. But Don thought Cog Psych was too narrow, so he helped start the world's first department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego while consulting at Xerox PARC, publishing papers in the AI journals on what is today known as GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned AI). At UCSD, one of his young postdoctoral fellows in Cog Sci said he was wrong (Don likes it when this happens). While Don busy helping invent Human Computer Interaction, the postdoc, Geoff Hinton, worked with Don's colleague, Dave Rumelhart, to invent the modern neural network and back propagation algorithm. After life as VP of Advanced Technology at Apple he decided to become a designer in order to design designers. He's an educator, impacting students throughout the world through his lectures and books, including Design of Everyday Things and Design for a Better World. That last book compelled him to launch a charity, the Don Norman Design Award and Summit, https://dnda.design, to reward early career practitioners who launch projects for societal needs. In this first year, applications have been submitted from 26 countries.

John Pasmore recently founded and launched an Artificial Intelligence resource, Latimer.ai. This large language model (“LLM”) was built to deliver accurate historical information and bias-free interaction for Black and Brown audiences. From 1995 to 2005, John partnered with music impresario Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records, to create Oneworld Media, Inc., where he served as CEO. Oneworld produced a magazine of the same name, a TV program with Warner Bros., and entered a multi-year custom publishing relationship with Hearst Magazines. John was also a co-founder and CEO of the venture-backed, video-based travel platform VoyageTV. He was a partner at the Family Office, TRS Capital, and several TRS Capital portfolio companies, including MovitaOrganics, an organic supplement company led by filmmaker Spike Lee's wife, Tonya Lewis Lee.

Steven Sloman has taught at Brown since 1992. He studies higher-level cognition. He is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the American Psychological Society, the Eastern Psychological Association, and the Psychonomic Society. Along with scientific papers and editorials, his published work includes a 2005 book Causal Models: How We Think about the World and Its Alternatives, a 2017 book The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone co-authored with Phil Fernbach, and the forthcoming Righteousness: How Humans Decide from MIT Press. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognition, Chair of the Brown University faculty, and created Brown’s concentration in Behavioral Decision Sciences.

Abigail Snodgrass is a systems thinker, designer, and brand strategist. Her career spans nonprofit advocacy, venture capital, and creative innovation—always in service of bold ideas that move people and systems toward something better. Rooted in equity and driven by long-term transformation, Abigail helps brands build with clarity, care, and resonance. She is the founder of Byline Labs, a storytelling studio turning brand strategy into impact-driven content, and the strategy lead at Found Brand Lab, where she partners with culture-shaping brands navigating moments of inflection. She brings a blend of systems fluency, narrative precision, and values-first leadership—grounded in the belief that the futures we imagine are shaped by the stories we choose to tell.

Peter Spear is an ethnographer & brand consultant with over 25 years experience helping teams understand the human experience of their organization. He calls this brand listening. It is imaginative & ethnographic face-to-face research designed to deliver foundational insights into the motivations & mindsets that drive behavior. Brand listening leads to more resonant product, brand and creative development. Each week Peter publishes a newsletter and conversation series about human understanding & business called THAT BUSINESS OF MEANING.

Barbara Tversky studied cognitive psychology at the University of Michigan. She held positions first at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then at Stanford, from 1978-2005 when she took early retirement. She is an active Emerita Professor of Psychology at Stanford and Professor of Psychology at Columbia Teachers College. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Cognitive Science Society, the Society for Experimental Psychology, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Science, and a recipient of the Kampe de Feriat Prize. Her research has spanned memory, categorization, language, spatial cognition, event perception and cognition, diagrammatic reasoning, sketching, creativity, design, and gesture. The overall goals have been to uncover how people think about the spaces they inhabit and the actions they perform and see and then how people use the world and the things in it, including their own actions and creations and those of others, to remember, to think, to create, to communicate. Her 2019 book, Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought, overviews some of that work. She has collaborated widely, with linguists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists, chemists, biologists, architects, designers, and artists.