Stephanie Ashenfelder is a scholar, educator, and creative practitioner whose work bridges the intersections of art, design, technology, and community engagement. Currently a faculty member at the University of Rochester, Stephanie specializes in new media and design, focusing on projects that address environmental sustainability, social justice, and equity through participatory and human-centered approaches. Stephanie’s teaching centers on fostering inclusive, collaborative learning environments where students thrive as both teachers and learners. Her inventive pedagogy has empowered students to create impactful projects , including a project at the University’s Memorial Art Gallery that secured a 100K grant from the Verizon-NYC Media Lab Museum Initiative. This project focused making augmented reality and digital tools accessible in the museum space to schools nationwide.

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.