Asmaa Elsayed is currently pursuing her doctorate within the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the College of Education. Asmaa's research examines the potential of emancipatory and transformative lifelong learning as a pathway for fostering healing, resilience, and holistic well-being among minority women in the Middle East. 

Nehal Elmeligy is a Sociology Ph.D. candidate. The tentative title of her dissertation is Emergent Publics in the Time of Unpredictable Crackdowns: The Impact of Online/Offline Feminist Counterpublics in Contemporary Egypt. It is a qualitative study of nine Egyptian feminist initiatives founded between 2015 and 2020 that create counterpublics. 

Fatou Jobe is a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in sociology from Senegambia. Her research interests center around international fishery processes, with a specific focus on gendered dynamics within the industry, local environmental perceptions, and the sustainable development logic associated with fisheries industrialization and development in The Gambia and Senegal.

Mahbubeh Moqadam is a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in Sociology. Her research focuses on the roles and experiences of Generation Z in digital activism, exploring how they use digital platforms as tools/spaces of resistance and mobilization amidst rigorous state surveillance and control. Her work utilizes digital feminist methodologies to provide analysis of emerging forms of activism among the youth.