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Nicholas Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. His research and teaching interests include great power politics, military intervention and territorial expansion, conventional military operations, and East Asian international relations. His first book, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2024), was awarded the International Studies Association's International Security Studies Section Best Book Award for 2026. His research and other writings have also been published in journals such as International Security, International Interactions, Political Science Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, Strategic Studies Quarterly, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, among other outlets. He previously had fellowships at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, the MacMillan Center Program on Japanese Politics and Diplomacy at Yale University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

Anthony R. Artino, Jr., PhD, is a tenured Professor and Associate Dean for Educational Research at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). Trained as an educational psychologist, he provides institutional leadership in education research, evaluation, faculty development, and scholarly communities of practice across SMHS. In this role, he works collaboratively with education and research leaders to strengthen the rigor, impact, and responsible use of educational data in teaching, assessment, and accreditation.

Before joining GW SMHS in 2020, Dr. Artino co-founded and served as Deputy Director of the Center for Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences while on active duty in the U.S. Navy. He retired in 2020 as a Captain in the Medical Service Corps after more than 23 years of leadership and service.

Keith A. Crandall, PhD is the founding Director of the Computational Biology Institute at George Washington University. Professor Crandall studies the computational biology, population genetics, and bioinformatics of a variety of organisms, from crustaceans to agents of infectious diseases.  His lab also focuses on the development and testing of data analytic approaches, especially for Omics and clinical data.  He applies these methods and others to the study of the evolution of infectious diseases with particular focus on microbiome studies. Professor Crandall has published over 400 peer reviewed publications, as well as three books (The Evolution of HIV, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, and Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics). Dr. Crandall’s research has been funded by both the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health as well as from a variety of other agencies, including American Foundation for AIDS Research, National Geographic, US Forest Service, Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturer’s of America Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, etc.  He has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Oxford University and an Allen Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution Sabbatical Fellowship at the Bioinformatics Institute at the University of Auckland.  Professor Crandall has received a number of awards for research and teaching, including an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Evolution at the University of Texas, the American Naturalist Society Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a PhRMA Foundation Faculty Development Award in Bioinformatics, an NIH James A. Shannon Directors Award, ISI Highly Cited Designation, Honors Professor of the Year award at Brigham Young University, and the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award. He is an elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Linnean Society of London.  Professor Crandall earned his BA degree from Kalamazoo College in Biology and Mathematics, an MA degree from Washington University in Statistics, and a PhD from Washington University in Biology and Biomedical Sciences.  He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Puyo, Ecuador. 

Prof. Eric Dano graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in Physics and then served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an Electronic Countermeasures Officer flying in the EA-6B "Prowler."  He later earned a M.S and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences from the University of Michigan.  His thesis focused on modeling and experimentally characterizing the microwave radar backscatter from transient deep-water breaking waves. Upon graduation, Dr. Dano worked at BAE Systems for over 25 years, where he built on his military experience to architect, design, and field a myriad of defense systems for land, air and space-based applications.  His last roles included the System Architecture Community of Practice lead, the Chief Engineer development lead and he has continued on as a part time contractor to serve as an ARB, IDR and phase review chair/committee member.  Dr. Dano is past president of the New England INCOSE chapter and active in the INCOSE System Architecture, Resilience and Sustainability working groups. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member and past president of the USNA Chapter of the Physics honor society (ΣΠΣ), the industry liaison to the ASEE Mid-Atlantic section and serves on the NDIA System Architecture/MOSA working groups.

Dr. María José de la Fuente is a Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics, and affiliated faculty of the GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future.

Her research is situated at the intersection of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Foreign Language Pedagogy, and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), with a focus on how language instruction can support advanced cognitive, intercultural, and sustainability-related learning outcomes. Her scholarship has made sustained contributions to Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), particularly in the areas of learner attention, task-based instruction, and the principled use of the first language (L1) in the foreign language classroom. This work has appeared in leading refereed journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, The Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching Research, and Computer Assisted Language Learning, as well as in major edited volumes and reference works.

Building on this theoretical foundation, her more recent work examines the pedagogical and curricular integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into higher-education language pedagogy. She has edited Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning (Routledge, 2022), a volume that foregrounds language classrooms as spaces for critical inquiry and global citizenship education. Her current publications extend this agenda through empirically informed and classroom-tested models for developing sustainability literacy in Spanish, including Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina (Cognella, 2025) and a collaborative study in Language Learning in Higher Education (2025). In parallel, her contribution to Elsevier Encyclopedia of Linguistics synthesizes foundational SLA research on the role of attention in SLA for scholarly and pedagogical audiences.

She has authored three Spanish textbooks: Gente (LingroLearning), Puntos de encuentro: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Advanced Spanish (Cognella Publishers), and most recently Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina: Developing Sustainability Literacy in Spanish (Cognella Publishers). Her teaching has been recognized with a GWU Bender Teaching Award, and she is a founding member of the GW Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Leonard Friedman is a Professor of Health Policy and Management and is director of the Executive Master of Health Administration degree at the George Washington University.  He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, School of Public Administration in 1991 where his dissertation examined technology acquisition in hospitals in Southern California.  Dr. Friedman’s scholarly work has concentrated on the mechanisms of organizational change and strategic decision-making in health service organizations. Dr. Friedman has been the chair of the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management and Association of University Programs in Health Administration. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is a past-president of the National Capital Healthcare Executives Chapter of ACHE. In 2015, Dr. Friedman was inducted into the StuderGroup Fire Starter Hall of Fame. Dr. Friedman is the immediate past editor of the Journal of Health Administration Education and is the former editor of Frontiers of Health Services Management.

My teaching and research focus on environmental law, natural resources law, administrative law, and property law.  I teach four different environmental law courses (a survey course and courses on air pollution control, public natural resources law, and regulation of toxic substances and hazardous waste), as well as administrative law and property law.

 Alexa Alice Joubin (name pronunciation) is the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award and holder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. She writes about artificial intelligence (AI), race, gender, cultural globalization, Shakespeare, disability, and film and theatre. She teaches in the Departments of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, University Honors Program, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she serves as founding Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute and the Co-director the Taiwan Education and Research Program (Sigur Center for Asian Studies). She is a faculty of the GW Trustworthy AI Initiative (her Digital Humanities Institute is a partner program of TAI). She is also an affiliate at the NSF's Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS). In 2024, she was named the inaugural Public Interest Technology Scholar (news story). 

D. Christopher Kayes is Professor of Management at the George Washington University School of Business. His research focuses on learning, emotional intelligence, and leadership. His speciality is new directions for experiential learning. He is author, coauthor, and editor of 7 books.

Shaista E. Khilji is the Chair of the Department of Human and Organizational Learning and Professor of Human and Organizational Learning and International Affairs at George Washington University (GW). She also serves as a Fulbright Specialist with the U.S. Department of State and is the founder of the Humanizing Initiative, a research institute and consultancy.

Prof. Khilji is an award-winning educator and academic leader. She has used her entrepreneurial spirit to develop innovative programs that redefine leadership education and launch a scholarly journal that promotes inclusive international business research. She serves as the founding editor-in-chief of the South Asian Journal of Business Studies (Emerald Publications) and the founding program director of GW's Organizational Leadership & Learning Program. She served on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee during the global pandemic and has represented GW faculty on several institutional initiatives, including the Shared Governance Task Force.

Prof. Khilji is a thought leader with expertise in leadership, talent development, cross-cultural management, and organizational change. Her recent work highlights managerialism, macro talent management (a field she helped establish), and the integration of artificial intelligence into workplaces. Over the past twenty years, she has designed and published findings from more than 45 research projects. She has also mentored and trained hundreds of professionals and graduate students to conduct research, develop corporate programs that improve leadership performance, and drive global change. She has trained executives in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Russia, the United States, Canada, Morocco, India, and Pakistan, and has served as a consultant to many public and private organizations.

Prof. Khilji has secured over US$4.75 million in training and research grants. From 2013 to 2017, she served as the Co-PI on a US$1 million project funded by the US Department of State, focused on women's empowerment in Pakistan, building academic partnerships, and fostering people-to-people ties. Additionally, she led efforts within GW to develop the next generation of USNA leaders through a master's degree in leadership education and human development (LEAD). She collaborated with the United States Coast Guard to train their officers through a master's degree in organizational leadership and learning (OLL).

Prof. Khilji has authored over 165 papers, published numerous scholarly articles in top-tier journals, written book chapters, and presented internationally at conferences. In 2007, GW nominated her as a "Rising Star in Academia Under 40 Years of Age" for a Washingtonian magazine award. She has received many awards, including the Best Reviewer and Outstanding Service awards from the Academy of Management, the Best Paper Award from the Academy of International Business, GW’s Service Excellence Award for hosting the Clinton Global Initiative University, the Morton A. Bender Teaching Award (2025), the Trachtenberg Service Award (2026), and the VALOR Award for cross-disciplinary work. In 2026, the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) awarded her the Graduate Faculty Teaching Award (Doctoral Level).

She blogs at https://shaistaekhilji.substack.com and https://medium.com/@shaistakhilji