Deoksoon Kim is a Professor at Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development. Her research focuses on second language reading, literacy acquisition, and technology in education, particularly for diverse learners. She collaborates with the Lemelson-MIT Program on science invention curricula and researches CityConnects' student support intervention.

Her current projects also explore digital storytelling's impact on diverse populations. Dr. Kim has over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters; she received the AERA Online SIG Best Paper award in 2021 and the Journal of Second Language Writing's Best Article Award in 2016. A renowned international scholar, she has been a keynote speaker at 15 universities worldwide and has conducted research and professional development in South Korea, the UK, Canada, and the US.

Anna Wittstruck has conducted concerts across the United States, in Latin America, Europe, and in Asia. She joined the faculty of Boston College in Fall 2023 as Associate Professor of the Practice, Director of the Boston College Symphony Orchestra. 

Previously she spent six years teaching at University of Puget Sound’s School of Music, serving as Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestra, and two years as Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where she conducted the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia. In 2023 she was named the national winner of the American Prize in Orchestral Conducting (college division). She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Princeton University with certificates in orchestral conducting and creative writing, and her PhD in musicology from Stanford University.

Riikka Pietiläinen Caffrey was born in Kemi, Finland, and sang and toured with the acclaimed Finnish choir Philomela. She has held academic positions at American University in Beirut, Lebanon; Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA; and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. Riikka's research interests include holistic choral experience, cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations, and redefining the choral canon. 

In addition to choirs at Boston College, she directs the ESOL Chorus for English language learners at Boston Public Library. Dr. Caffrey will be making her Carnegie Hall debut in the spring of 2025. Riikka’s articles have appeared in American and Australian choral journals. Her compositions and arrangements have been published with Alliance Music Publications and Kandinsky Music.

Aziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan, SJ, University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College. His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. Along with numerous articles and chapter contributions, he is the author of two books: The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them and The Two Faces of American Freedom.

His popular writing can be found in The New York Times, The Washington Post, n+1, Dissent, The Boston Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other venues. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Rana received an AB from Harvard College summa cum laude, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in political science from Harvard University.

Robert Savage is a Professor of History at Boston College and served as the director of the university’s renowned Irish Studies program for over 15 years. He has degrees from Boston College and University College, Dublin. Savage teaches courses in Modern Irish, British, and Atlantic World History and courses in media, film, and propaganda.

Savage has been awarded Visiting Professorships at Venice International University (Fall 2024); Trinity College Dublin; Queens University, Belfast; the University of Galway; and the University of Edinburgh. He is an award winning author who has published six books and numerous articles and chapters exploring contemporary Irish and British history. His most recent book, Northern Ireland, the BBC and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher is a Professor of the Practice in the Economics Department at Boston College. In addition, Geoffrey is a Research Fellow at the Center for Retirement Research. He conducts research on the role of cognitive decline in late-life finances, the retirement savings decision, and the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions.

He has a special interest in how these issues relate to low-income workers. Before joining Boston College as faculty, he earned a doctorate in economics from Boston College in the fields of labor economics, applied econometrics, and applied microeconomics. He worked for several years after finishing his PhD as an economic consultant at Analysis Group in Boston.

Elizabeth Kensinger is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. She joined the faculty of Boston College in 2006 after receiving her PhD in Neuroscience from MIT and completing postdoctoral training at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. She teaches courses on memory, emotion, and neuroscience. 

She also directs the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, which examines the bidirectional links between emotion and memory and how those links change across the adult lifespan. This research has been continuously funded by both the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and two books, including Why We Forget and How to Remember Better, a 2024 recipient of the PROSE Award in Biomedicine and Neuroscience.