Nesrin El-Isa is an educator, activist, and youth worker. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in culturally sustaining education at the University of Washington in Seattle. Previously, she received both her bachelor and master of education in secondary-teacher education (English & history) from the University of Vienna. Her research focuses include hybrid identity research, migration and gender, postcolonial theories, racial representation in media and popular culture, and culturally and linguistically responsive teaching.

She is also currently working on an oral-history project about senior Austrian Muslims in cooperation with the Österreichische Mediathek.

Anna Katharina Iberer is a graduate student in human-computer interaction + design at the University of Washington, Seattle. Anna is a creative and strategy-driven designer with 2.5 years of experience in automotive UX/UI design, challenging the status quo in accessibility, healthcare, and mobility by combining the creative aspects of design and the study of human behavior with the analytical techniques of engineering. She graduated with a BA in information and interaction design from FH Joanneum in 2020.

Berfin Kalayci is a freelance author and journalist, activist, and (public) speaker pursuing an MA in human rights - international studies at the Josef-Korbel-School in Denver. She has helped build social campaigns and planned and managed the PR and political-relations work of Austrian politicians. In her activist and political work, she focuses on topics such as global capitalism, feminism, and anti-racism.

Lisa Wölfl is a journalist from Vienna, Austria. She focuses on topics around inequality and justice. She received the k.at Podcast Award for her narrative podcast project "Abgeschminkt" on unionization efforts at a multinational cosmetics company.

Mario Rothbauer trained in biomedical engineering & tissue engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna in 2001 and completed his doctorate in biotechnology in 2015 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. At the Austrian Institute of Technology, he worked on the development of lab-on-a-chip systems for cell-based biomedical applications that combine cell biology, nanobiotechnology, biosensors, and materials science with microfabrication technologies. During his post-doc phase at the CellChipGroup, he worked the Faculty of Technical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology on lab-on-a-chip systems for the miniaturization of organ barrier models for nanotoxicology and organ-on-a-chip system. Currently, as university assistant and group leader of the "Orthopedic Microsystems" unit at the Karl Chiari Lab for Orthopedic Biology of the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna, he develops biomechanical joint-on-a-chip and organoid approaches for molecular musculoskeletal disease modeling, with special interest in tissue fibrosis, rheumatoid and osteo-arthritis. As vice president of the European Society for Alternatives to animal Testing (EUSAAT) and a passionate experimental in vitro scientist, he tries to follow 3Rs principles and develops authentic and complex human tissue models as complimentary technology for in vivo animal models in biomedical and pharmaceutical research.

Lisa Schmidthuber is a Fulbright visiting scholar at Stanford University in the fall quarter 2022 and an assistant professor at the Institute for Public Management and Governance at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

Lisa’s research focuses on citizen-state interaction as well as the role of civil society in strengthening democracy. She is interested in how transparent public information and citizen participation can improve the relationship between citizens and government and contribute to more effective public-service delivery. In particular, she studies the potential of leveraging digital technology to organize interaction more effectively. In addition, she focuses on how civil-society organizations promote public participation and empower citizens to participate in politics.

Before joining WU, Lisa worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Public and Nonprofit Management at Johannes Kepler University Linz. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting scholar at Suffolk University Boston. She received her doctoral degree in business administration in 2018 with a paper-based dissertation on open government and the exploration and exploitation of external knowledge in the public sector. Her doctoral thesis was awarded with the Goerdeler Preis.

Anna Leitner is currently working as a Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Atlanta. She teaches a culture class that looks at various aspects of culture and its societal implications as well as language classes.

Anna finished her bachelor's degree in English and geography/economics as teaching subjects in 2021. After that, she taught German as a foreign language at a grammar school in Lincoln, United Kingdom. She is currently working on her master's degree and studying pedagogy at the same time. After that, she plans on pursuing a PhD.

During her studies, Anna's main focus was on bilingualism. Her bachelor's thesis in English was concerned with heritage language learners and the perception of different languages in Austria. At the same time, she conducted research in the field of educational inequality in Austria, which was the topic of her second thesis.

Being able to teach and study at an all-women's college has broadened Anna's horizon and spiked her interest in women and gender studies as well as the inclusion of minorities in the classroom. She intends to use her time as a teaching assistant to learn from the cultural exchange and, in particular, her students in order to conduct some research and write her master's thesis in that field.

Friday Rosina Sagmeinster is currently working as a Fulbright FLTA at Bates College in Maine, where she teaches German to her students. She studied English and American studies and history at the University of Vienna, Trinity College Dublin, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She is passionate about public history, intercultural exchange, and global education. Frida Rosina looks forward to improving her teaching skills and sharing all things Austrian with her students in the US this year.

Eva Scheicher and studied secondary-teacher education for German and Catholic religious education at the University of Vienna. During the 2022–23 academic year, she is assisting the German program at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and will teach German 101 in the spring semester.