Assist. Prof. Dr. Shokhan Mohammed Fatah, a distinguished scholar from Kurdistan-Iraq, holds a Ph.D. in English Literature. With over a decade of experience in higher education, she has been actively engaged in research and academia since 2012. Dr. Fatah is a member of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) in Greece and has published 15 papers in various esteemed journals. She has also contributed to international academic discourse by presenting at conferences in the UK, France, Greece, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. Presently, she is a scientific member at English department, Charmo University, Kurdistan Region.

Dr. Pattamawadee Sankheangaew is a lecturer and researcher of Buddhapanya Sri Thawarawadee Buddhist College, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Thailand. She got doctoral degree in major Philosophy. Her subjects taught are English for Communication, Philosophy, and Religion. Her major conduct research are multidisciplinary and cross-cultural fields with synergy with SDGs. She is a strong advocator for Rights to Education and Rights to Health. Since 2020, she published four papers relevant to those rights included next COVID-19 prepareness. At present, her ongoing research topic is investigated “Philosophical Trajectories: Navigating Modern and Postmodern Ethical Landscape for AI Thailand Next Normal.”

Dr. Karim Trueblood is a researcher, educator, and consultant specializing in legal research, policy analysis, and social justice. She holds a Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Leadership from Creighton University and an MPS in Emergency and Disaster Management from Georgetown University. Dr. Trueblood is pursuing an MA in Writing at Johns Hopkins University, where she applies narrative and interdisciplinary approaches to decolonizing academic discourse. She teaches with Jesuit Worldwide Learning and serves as Director of Research at Magis Research & Consulting. Her research explores the intersections of law, policy, and social structures, focusing on tribal criminal jurisdictional authority and systemic disparities impacting Indigenous communities.

She is a temporary professor at the faculty of letters and human sciences of Abdelmalek Es-Saadi university in Tetouan-Morocco, where she got her PHD degree in linguistics, communication and translation. She specialises in topics like scientific terminology and lexicography and works on a project of creating a trilingual mathematics dictionary.

James Riley has been teaching for nearly two decades. He holds an MA in TESOL, an EdS in Instructional Technology, and a PhD in Educational Leadership. His research interests lie in academic writing, flipped language learning, peer observation of teaching, and social identity construction. He recently received the US State Department’s Virtual Educator Impact Award for his work in Myanmar.

She is an emerging researcher with a PHD in Community Development, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN), Master of Arts in Development Studies, Nelson Mandela University (NMU), PG Diploma in Disability Studies from University of Cape Town (UCT), and Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (UKZN). She has published and submitted numerous journal articles and book chapters to be published in 2025. Moreover, she has presented her research at national and international conferences both virtually and in-person. Her research interest is on social justice for vulnerable groups (people with disabilities, women and girls, and migrants).  She looks at the intersectionality of the different ‘isms’ that create a compounding effect on social groups.

Darin Payne is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi. As a specialist in Composition and Rhetoric, he teaches at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate program and publishes broadly on rhetoric, writing, technology, and education.