Dr. Jason Williams is a Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University.  He’s a passionate activist criminologist deeply concerned about racial and gender disparity and mistreatment within the criminal legal system.  He’s published various articles on returning citizens and incarceration, policing and race, gender, and social control, and the broader implications around racialized social control. He is a qualitative criminologist who engages in community-grounded approaches to research.  His perspectives and research has been quoted by media outlets around the nation.

Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D. is a cultural and oral historian of women exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, migration, memory, and postmemory. Founding Director of the InternationalAssociation for Spielrein Studies, and recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant. Her most recent book is an edited anthology, Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance (Routledge, 2024). In her current research project, she uses archival materials and interviews to reconstruct biographies of Polish Jewish women psychoanalysts who fled the Nazis to the United States. She focuses on their accounts of the past, and the retellings of their stories of loss and survival by their children and grandchildren. Klara is an Adjunct Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Montclair State University in NJ. 

Sandra is a communication coach with a background in instructional design. Her focus is in interpersonal and public communication skills training including listening, speaking, leadership, and presentation technique. She has been teaching the MSU Listening course since 2015. The listening course studies what constitutes effective listening: why it is crucial; what makes it so difficult to achieve; and methods to develop communication competency to enhance work; academic; romantic; familial; and social relationships.