George Atallah is the assistant executive director of external affairs for the NFL Players Association and has served in his role since May 2009. Atallah manages the NFLPA’s strategic communications, including media relations, crisis management, digital content, and social media. Using both traditional and new media forums, Atallah helped define the union’s position in the lead-up to and during the NFL lockout, along with numerous other high-profile issues and cases for nearly 15 years. Atallah’s professional experience constitutes financial services, nonprofit organizations, international affairs, government, and politics. Atallah was born in Lebanon and immigrated to New York City shortly after his birth due to civil war. He grew up in Queens, NY, went to Archbishop Molloy High School, and earned a bachelor's degree at Boston College in English and philosophy. He later received an MBA from the George Washington University. Follow him on social media at @georgeatallah. 

Website: https://twitter.com/georgeatallah?lang=en

Hannah Borenstein is a collegiate assistant professor in the social sciences collegiate division and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. Her research is broadly concerned with intersections of sports, race, gender, politics, and labor, with a particular focus on long-distance running in Ethiopia. Her book project, provisionally entitled 'Running to Labor: Ethiopian Women Distance Runners in Networks of Capital,' comes from more than two years of fieldwork in Ethiopia, along with multi-sited archival and anthropological research in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her research situates the stories of women runners within a global political economy of sport as they navigate a world of corporate sponsorship, international competition, and gendered cultural expectations at home. Borenstein earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Duke University, with certificates in African and African American Studies, and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. In addition to academic writing she is also committed to public scholarship.

Website: https://www.hannahborenstein.com

Rebecca Jarrett is currently based in New York, working at global PR and communications services firm Hill & Knowlton. Before starting her career at H&K, Jarrett received a master's degree in media, culture, and technology from the University of Virginia. Her thesis positioned the Metaverse and Web3 as “charismatic market trends,” captivating the global fashion industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Rather than simply evaluating fashion's success in these digital frontiers, her research developed a way of seeing this technological bubble as it blended reactivity with proactivity, hype with uncertainty, speculation with doubt, and futurity with familiarity. Jarrett also received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. During this time, she served as creative director and president of UNCUT, a multimedia journalism platform she co-founded to amplify the voices of UVA student-athletes. She also completed a multi-year research assistantship at the Darden School of Business, where she supported Professor Kim Whitler in producing "Athlete Brands," a name, image, and likeness (NIL) guide and personal brand-building workbook. Jarrett was also a five-year student athlete and proudly captained the UVA women’s soccer team in her final year in Charlottesville.

Natalie Kupperman is an applied sports science researcher and certified athletic trainer. She studies the use of biometrics, wearables, and other athlete-monitoring methods to reduce injury risk and optimize athletic performance. She is currently an assistant professor in UVA's School of Data Science. Before that Kupperman was a Ph.D. student in UVA's department of kinesiology, where she did research in the Exercise and Sport Injury Lab and athletics with the men’s basketball team and women’s volleyball team. Before her doctoral studies, she spent seven years at Northwestern University working clinically as an athletic trainer in athletics and the University Health Service. Kupperman’s research interests include data infrastructure and pipelines for collaboration in athlete monitoring, dynamic models of injury risk and athlete readiness, creating seamless monitoring environments for teams, and data governance in sport. An overview of her work with the UVA men’s basketball team can be found at the link below. Kupperman holds a Ph.D. in education-kinesiology/sports medicine and an M.Ed. in athletic training from the University of Virginia, as well as a bachelor's degree in athletic training from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.

Website: https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-opting-ai-athletics

Mona Sloane is an assistant professor of data science and media studies at the University of Virginia. As a sociologist, she studies the intersection of technology and society, specifically in the context of AI design, use, and policy. She also convenes the 'Co-Opting AI' series and serves as the editor of the Co-Opting AI book series at the University of California Press as well as the technology editor for Public Books. At UVA, she runs Sloane Lab, which conducts empirical research on the implications of technology for the organization of social life. Its focus lies in AI as a social phenomenon that intersects with wider cultural, economic, material, and political conditions. The lab spearheads social science leadership in applied work on responsible AI, public scholarship, and technology policy.

Website: https://www.monasloane.org