Sameer Ranade's recent professional work has centered around policy and community organizing at Front & Centered, a coalition focused on advancing racially and economically just solutions to pollution and climate change in Washington State. Prior to that, Ranade was a climate and clean energy campaign associate at the Washington Environmental Council and has held positions within the federal government, including staff assistant for U.S. Senator Patty Murray and president of Tenants Union of Washington. Read Sameer Ranade's full bio.
Marion Bell is a 1992 Fordham College at Lincoln Center graduate. She is a main coordinator for this panel discussion and a co-founder of the MOSAIC affinity chapter.
Moriah A. Washington (she/her) serves as the Director of Community Engagement in the New York City Emergency Management, leading a team that collaborates with and engages community + faith-based organizations in emergency preparedness and response. While at NYC Emergency Management, she has pioneered Strengthening Communities, a program designed to compensate community and faith-based networks as they learn and develop hyperlocal community emergency plans. During the COVID-19 response, co-led New York City's Community Engagement Taskforce while also serving as a member of the newly chartered Racial Inclusion & Equity Taskforce.
Prof. John Davenport studied Philosophy at Yale University and completed his Ph.D in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in 1998. Since then, he has taught in undergraduate and graduate programs at Fordham University in New York City, where he served as Associate Char of Philosophy and Associate Director of Environmental Studies. He has also served in various offices for the Kierkegaard Society USA - most recently as Society President (2010 - 2011) John Published and taught widely on topics in free will and responsibility, existential conceptions of practical identity, virtue ethics, motivation and autonomy, theories of justice, and philosophy of religion ( including divine attributes, mythology and fantasy literature). John Davenports full bio is here.