Dr. Sara Brallier
Sara Brallier is a Professor of Sociology at Coastal Carolina University where she has been a faculty member since 2000. Sara earned all her degrees (BA, MA and Ph.D.) from the University of Buffalo. Her specializations are social gerontology, social inequality, homelessness, and research methodology.
Her current research is a collaborative effort with her colleague Dr. Stephanie Southworth and their students. Since 2016, they have conducted over 200 needs assessment surveys of experiencing homelessness. Based on their findings, Sara and Stephanie worked with the university and local communities to create the Rolling Forward Program, a bike share program which operates out of the local homeless shelters.
John D’Amicantonio
John D’Amicantonio is a retired United States Foreign Service Officer who served in the Public Affairs Section of 5 different embassies worldwide from 2004-2018.
He has lived in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America.
John was a frequently invited speaker in approximately 45 countries where he represented the U.S. government. He spoke on a number of diverse topics including U.S. elections and history; censorship; plagiarism, copyright and intellectual property; higher education; the digital divide; and life in the foreign service.
John also has extensive experience working with students in the Model UN. In 2019, he volunteered in Thailand to teach English to Shan refugees in Thailand.
Dr. Diana Greene Foster
Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a professor and demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. She led the Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion.
She is the author of over 120 scientific papers as well as the 2020 Scribner book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She is currently collaborating with scientists on a Nepal Turnaway Study. In 2022, she launched a nationwide study to examine the health and economic consequences of the end of Roe.
Click here to read the Turnaway Study results.
Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, her MA and PhD in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University.