Stephanie Ashenfelder’s artistic scholarship is deeply rooted in social consciousness and interdisciplinary collaboration. Currently holding positions as the Director of Digital Media Studies and Academic Director
for Studio Art at the University of Rochester, Stephanie is instrumental in leading project-based courses that emphasize design and innovation. Recognized for her dedication to students, Stephanie’s innovative teaching methods received acclaim in 2022 when she and her student team secured a Verizon and NYC Media Labs Museum Initiative Grant. This initiative showcased cutting-edge edtech approaches, seamlessly blending physical and digital experiences through augmented reality in a traditional museum space. Stephanie actively collaborates with community partners to amplify
marginalized voices, raise awareness, and foster education.

Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp — dancer, educator, and activist — centers her research somatics, social justice, dance as change agent and the embodiment of activism. Her choreographic work has been
featured internationally for the past 17 years. She has been selected for residencies and projects including the NYS Dance Force Western NY Choreographers’ Initiative. Rose co-founded Artists Coalition
for Change Together (ACCT), an organization active from 2016-2020, as a way to engage dancer-citizens in Rochester. She has received multiple grants from the Center for Community Engagement and serves
as a Faculty Fellow with a focus on creative work in community-engaged settings. As of late, her creative work has centered on site specific, interdisciplinary work that unearths invisible histories through
embodiment. Rose continues to perform and present with a focus on the relationship between the body and the environment, the role the body plays in environmental justice, and climate change.

Andrea A. Gluckman combines the three tracks of academics, social justice, and photography in her research and art. Schooled as an expert on policy, culture, education, and religions of the Middle East, she worked as a diplomatic advisor, professor, researcher, and writer at Harvard, the University of the Middle East, and the University of Rochester. Her research specialties include the project of justice after mass violence, the use of art and narrative to uncover and uplift hidden histories, and socio-hydrology.
She is an international-award winning photographer; her work has been shown in 22 different countries, and she has completed residencies from Arkansas to Cairo. Her current project, Source Waters, focuses
on various river systems and the impact of climate change on human connection to water, collective identity, and the art that surrounds both. She is currently based out of Rochester, New York, where she
teaches and works collaboratively with artistic communities on issues of social justice, indigenous truth-telling, and anti-racism work.