Kenneth R. Miller, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Biology at Brown University and President of the National Center for Science Education. He attended Brown as an undergraduate and earned a PhD in Cell Biology at the University of Colorado. His research on cell membranes has been published in journals such as Cell, Nature, The Journal of Cell Biology, and Scientific American. He is coauthor, along with Joseph S. Levine, of Biology textbooks used by millions of high school students. His popular books on evolution include Finding Darwin‘s God—A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, and most recently The Human Instinct – How We Evolved to have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will.

Myrna Perez, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Ohio University, jointly appointed in Classics & Religious Studies and in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She received her PhD from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rice University, and has been a fellow at the Harvard Divinity School, and in the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University. She is the co-editor of Critical Approaches to Science and Religion (Columbia University Press, 2023) and author of Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). Her audio lecture series “The History of Science, Sexuality and Medicine” is available via Audible and Apple Books.

Arpita Bose, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Her lab uses an interdisciplinary approach to study microbial metabolisms and their influence on biogeochemical cycling. Her lab then applies the knowledge they gain to generate new ways of addressing issues such as the energy crisis, pollution, human health, sustainability, the circular economy,  and climate action.