Dr. Aditi Verma is interested in how nuclear technologies specifically and complex technologies broadly—and their institutional infrastructures—can be designed in more just, equitable, creative, and participatory ways that are epistemically inclusive of both lay and expert perspectives.
She joined the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Studies Department at the University of Michigan in the Fall of 2021 as an Assistant Research Scientist and will become an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2022. Verma is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’s Project on Managing the Atom, and former Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center where she was jointly appointed by the Project on Managing the Atom and the International Security Program. At MIT, she was a Burchard Scholar and a Kelly-Douglas Fellow.
Andy Morales leads the design of experiences through the lens of play.
She started her career as an innovative filmmaker and marketer; she is most known for becoming the first Central American to create a fully open source transmedia story.
Feeling a need to go beyond entertainment and into social change, she transitioned her career into design and graduated from a Master's degree at Parsons Design School, the best design school in the United States.
Since then, she has worked at ConsenSys, Roblox, MongoDB, and ThoughtWorks, and partnered with clients like the United Nations, the Red Cross, FEMA, and the City of New York.
She has won multiple awards for her work in technology, user-experience design, community-led design, and game design. She often speaks internationally at conferences about systems thinking, financial infrastructure, and wicked problems.
