Dr. Kimberly Clark is a Lecturer in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and Co-Founder & Chief Research Officer of Merchant Mechanics, where she has worked with clients including Viacom, Coca-Cola, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Her research explores applied neuroscience and consumer behavior, supported by grants from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy & Society. With 20+ years of teaching and mentoring experience, Dr. Clark has guided students whose research earned top honors and admission to universities such as Harvard, Cornell, Duke, and NYU. She has published in leading journals, including Neuron and The Journal of Advertising Research, and currently serves on The Advertising Research Foundation’s Cognition Council.

Ida Danewid is an Associate Professor in Gender and Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2018 and previously pursued her MPhil studies at the University of Oxford. Ida’s research is located at the intersection of global political theory, intellectual history, and political economy. She is particularly interested in anticolonial and black radical thought, gender studies, carceral geography, and the global history of anarchist and abolitionist struggle.
Ida is the author of Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press), co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave), and author of many peer-reviewed articles and chapters. She has won multiple awards, including Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations, the British International Studies Association’s L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize, and the Edward Said Award.