Dr. Melissa Gonzales received her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry, biology, and Spanish, and her Master of Science in Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene from the University of Arizona. She earned her doctorate in environmental health from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She also completed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in environmental epidemiology with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development.

Nathan Morrow, PhD. is an Associate Professor in IHSD and has taught a summer institute on Food Security and Resilience in Italy for 15-years. His research leverages geospatial tools for open and citizen science to investigate policy relevant action for environmental justice, human and planetary wellbeing, and food system resilience. He is currently leading NASA-funded open science capacity development to advance environmental justice in the Gulf South.

Rie Yotsu is a dermatologist, and with her interest in global health, has cultivated her expertise in skin infections. She especially has longstanding track record of her contributions to the field of skin-related neglected tropical diseases, or the ‘skin NTDs’. Skin NTDs is a set of NTDs which manifest with skin symptoms, such as leprosy, Buruli ulcer, yaws, lymphatic filariasis, mycetoma, and scabies.