Biji Kuu (his avatar name) is a fifty year health industry executive on the business and administrative side. He has been volunteering with global programs, often with veteran or special needs population for twenty years. He has an MBA and executive education at Wharton, University of Chicago Booth School and Kellogg School, and is a military veteran. Biji is presently spending time in various civic pursuits and global engagement and betterment programs.
Dr. Kimberly Lopez (she/her) works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She is interested in critically examining social structures and processes that reinforce difference and marginalisation. As a community-engaged qualitative researcher, she is interested in aging and long-term care (LTC), care labour, and well-being. In particular, Kim values working collaboratively and creatively to amplify BIPOC and other Othered identities (gender, ability, class, ability, and age) in the context of caring labour and leisure – practices inextricably linked to the social through labelled bodies. To learn about practices of labour engaged in LTC caring work and hear about the different ways identity is embodied, Kim looks to influencers of anti-racist feminisms, anti-colonial/restorative practices, and post-identity literature/art.
Ronnie Kraegel is the Executive Director of the Brain Energy Support Team (BEST). BEST provides peer support, education, and skill development for persons with brain injuries and their families to help them live healthy lives and build on their strengths. On Second Life as Namaara MacMoragh, Kraegel is the Chief Grounds Keeper at Etopia Sustainable Communities, Etopia Island, where supportive and engaging activities are provided for neurodivergent individuals.
Cicero Kit (her avatar name) is a woman with disabilities who has personal experience with complex trauma. She is a communication scholar who has taught numerous college level courses on the topic, worked as a journalist, as well as having worked in the non-profit sector.
