Johanna Ray Vollhardt is a professor at Clark University, where she also directs the Peace and Conflict Studies program. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology with a concentration in the Psychology of Peace of Violence from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She served as Vice President of the International Society for Political Psychology and is a co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Her research focuses on how people make sense of, respond to, and resist against collective victimization.

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Rob Klein is a Ph.D. candidate in Developmental Psychology at Cornell University. His research focuses on self-concept development during adolescence and young adulthood, with an emphasis on gender and sexual identity, psychological well-being, and the unfolding of identity processes over time. Rob conducts research using community-based participatory methods and is committed to producing work that is pragmatic and serves a wider community. In parallel with his academic training, he has maintained a meditation practice for 15 years, which informs his interest in mindfulness-based and identity-affirming approaches to supporting adolescent well-being. He is grateful to dedicate his work to serving humanity.

Nichol Bradford stands at the forefront of human potential and AI, accelerating human transformation through technology investments, research, and global thought leadership.  

Currently, Nichol serves as Executive-in-Residence for AI + HI at The Society for Human Resource Management, shaping global thinking on human-AI collaboration. She is also Co-Founder and Partner of Niremia Collective, an early stage venture fund focused on human potential technologies, and she co-founded TransformativeTech.org, the largest global ecosystem of founders, investors and innovators building tech for human flourishing.

Previously, as a senior interactive entertainment executive, Nichol held strategy, operations, marketing and production roles at major brands including Epic Games, Activision-Blizzard, Vivendi Games and Disney. She led operations for World of Warcraft China and Blizzard properties in China, played a key role on the Vivendi team responsible for the landmark $18B Activision-Blizzard merger deal, and helped produce record-breaking events in the metaverse at Epic Games.

Nichol has an MBA from The Wharton School, is Faculty at Singularity University, a Trustee at CIIS, and has been a Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. 

Moving forward, Nichol is focused on advancing human potential through ethical and empowering AI — catalyzing a global ecosystem of innovators to create technology for human thriving.