President and CEO
Minorities in Shark Sciences

Jasmin Graham, an award-winning young shark scientist and environmental educator who specializes in elasmobranch (shark and ray) ecology and evolution, serves on the board of the American Elasmobranch Society, is President and CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences (an organization dedicated to supporting gender minorities of color in shark sciences) and is Project Coordinator for the MarSci-LACE project focused on promoting best practices to recruit, support and retain minority students in marine science. Jasmin is also the author of Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist and directed/hosted the PBS Terra series, Sharks Unknown with Jasmin Graham.

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California

Manuel Pastor, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, currently directs the Equity Research Institute at USC. The inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC, Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities. He has won countless awards for his scholarship and advocacy and is the author or co-author of many books, including: Just Growth; Solidarity Economics; and, most recently (with Chris Benner), Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future.

Co-Leader
Collaborative for Narrative Infrastructure

Jess Rimington is a next-economy strategist, practitioner, and scholar focused on supporting businesses and organizations to step out of extractive capitalism. She is co-author of Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work –winner of the Porchlight’s Business Book Award in Management & Workplace Culture. She was Co-Director of the Beloved Economies research initiative from 2015-2022, and currently co-leads the Collaborative for Narrative Infrastructure –a 15-organization coalition that seeks to increase progressive movements’ storytelling capacities to help bring about shifts in how we work and build an economy that works for all.