People

Lynda Jessup (she/her)

Director of NACDI, Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University, NACDI

Sascha Priewe (he/him)

Co-founder and Team member of NACDI; Director of Collections & Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum; Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Cultural Studies, Queen’s University, NACDI

Sarah E.K. Smith (she/her)

Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations; Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University; NACDI Team Member, Western University

Jeffrey Brison (he/him)

Co-founder of NACDI, Director of Cultural Studies and Professor of History, Queen's University, NACDI

César Villanueva Rivas (he/him)

Professor of International Relations and Public/Cultural Diplomacy, Universidad Iberoamericana

Nicholas J. Cull (he/him)

Professor of Public Diplomacy and founding director of the Master of Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California (USC)

Eduardo Luciano Tadeo Hernández (he/him)

Profesor de Cátedra, Departamento de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad Iberoamericana

Amanda Rodríguez Espínola (she/her)

NACDI Research Fellow and independent researcher

Guadalupe Moreno Toscano (she/her)

NACDI Research Associate, Academic and Research Secretariat, School of Fine Arts, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. PhD in Communications, UIA

María Montemayor de Teresa (she/her)

NACDI Research Associate; Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences, with an International Relations orientation at UNAM

Francisco Zepeda Trujillo (he/him)

NACDI Research Fellow and PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies, Queen's University

Simge Erdogan-O'Connor (she/her)

Research Associate at the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI)

Nora Rahimian

Co-founder of #CultureFix

Vincent Raynauld

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Emerson College and Affiliate Professor in the Département de lettres et communication sociale at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. He

Cynthia Roberts

Creative professional in cultural and design industries

Christine Sadler

Managing Director, National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Zoila Sánchez Espinosa

Independent Consultant

Ben Schnitzer (he/him)

PhD candidate, Cultural Studies, Queen’s University; Manager of Policy and Research, 2SLGBTQI+ Secretariat, Queen’s University

Tahseem Shams

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Jeff Thomas

Curator and Photographer

Odila Triebel

María José Núñez Villalpando

Undergraduate student, International Relations, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón, UNAM

Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard

Associate Professor, International Studies, Instituto Mora, Mexico City

R.S. Zaharna

Professor at the School of Communication, American University, and 2018 Distinguished Scholar in International Communication