Aleksandr Michuda is an assistant research professor at the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. He studies how machine learning and big data can be used to solve problems in development economics. He is particularly interested in the role of ride-share applications in transforming the labor market in emerging markets. He has worked with various corporate partners to make rigorous and policy-relevant research.

Richard Geddes researches the funding, financing, permitting, operation, and maintenance of heavy civil and social infrastructure, with a focus on the adoption of new technologies. His research has examined networkwide road pricing, infrastructure resilience, and innovative infrastructure financing via public-private partnerships.

Geddes is the founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) in the Brooks School of Public Policy.

Jennifer Newsom's research lies in the space between real, tangible bodies made of flesh, steel, glass, etc. and the perception of these bodies through vision.

Stephen Vider is assistant professor of history and director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University. His research examines the social practices and politics of everyday life in the 20th century United States, with a focus on intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.

Derrick Spires is an associate professor of literatures in English and affiliate faculty in American, visual, and media studies. He specializes in early African American and American print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history. His first book, The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S.

Derek Chang is an associate professor of history and Asian American studies. He is author of Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century as well as a number of book chapters on the intersection of race and religion.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of three poetry collections: Far District; House of Lords and Commons; and School of Instructions.

He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art. 

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is the author of The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership; the novels Mrs.

Beth Lyon’s research focuses on deportation defense, migrant rights, and xenophobic hate speech.

Renata Leitão's research focuses on the empowerment and self-determination of Indigenous and marginalized communities. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.