Our Team

Minji Jang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kate Wojtkiewicz

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dami Kim

Communications Assistant

Nicholas Barrow

Research Assistant

Julia Watts Belser is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, as well as core faculty in Georgetown’s Disability Studies Program. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, and disability in rabbinic literature, as well as queer feminist Jewish ethics. She directs an initiative on Disability and Climate Change, which brings together disability activists, artists, policy makers, and academics to address how disability communities are disproportionately affected by environmental risk and climate disruption.

Clare Brown is the Creative Director at Gallagher & Associates, LLC. With a background in Exhibition & Experience Design and Education, she specializes in creative facilitation and strategy. Her work explores the intersections of space, meaning, discourse, humans, storytelling, and experience.

Karen Huang is an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Drawing from philosophy, psychology, and science & technology studies (STS), her research uses empirical and critical approaches to investigate ethics as practiced within social contexts, with normative implications for democratic politics. 

Meg Leta Jones is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture & Technology program where she researches rules and technological change with a focus on privacy, memory, innovation, and automation.

Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a consultant in American Indian/Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous curriculum design, and social-justice education.

Ijeoma Njaka is the Senior Project Associate for Equity-Centered Design at the Red House and the Inclusive Pedagogy Specialist for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. As an educator, she specializes in inclusive pedagogy and anti-bias education for student, faculty, and staff audiences.

Joel Michael Reynolds is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Bioethics Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center, and Faculty Scholar of The Greenwall Foundation. At Georgetown, they are also core faculty in the Disability Studies Program and affiliated faculty in the Medical Humanities Initiative.

Lisa Singh is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Research Professor in the Massive Data Institute. She specializes in data-centric computing, including data mining, data privacy, data science, and data visualization to name a few.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. His theoretical work draws liberally from German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, histories of activism and activist thinkers, and the Black radical tradition. He is also committed to public engagement exploring intersections between climate justice and colonialism.