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Delia Byrnes, Allegheny College, USA

I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, where I teach courses on environmental justice and culture, power, and environment. I hold a PhD in English and my research focuses on the relationship between energy regimes and environmental justice in contemporary US literature and culture.

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Kate Cairns, Rutgers University, USA

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. My work brings a feminist perspective to the politics of childhood, with particular focus on how young people are positioned as the promise or threat of collective futures.

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Patty Born, Hamline University, USA

I'm the program director for Hamline's Master of Arts in Environmental Education, and co-director of our Environmental Studies program. My scholarly work is situated within ecojustice pedagogies, intersectional environmental education and I am particularly attuned to centering other-than-human/human connections and relations in early childhood settings.

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Joshua Russell, Canisius College, USA

I am an associate professor and director of the Anthrozoology graduate program at Canisius College. My research bridges phenomenology, queer theory, childhood studies, animal studies, and environmental education, with a key focus on children’s experiences of animal deaths.

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Smruthi Bala Kannan, University of Chicago, USA

I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago. I completed my doctoral work at the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden. My current research explores how environmental and human health entangle in young people’s lived experiences and complex negotiations in postcolonial contexts.

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