Andrew Crewe is the COO and co-founder of Spore by Vitaliti. A background in psychology, management, and design thinking has led Andrea to a deep understanding of interactions with our environment and how to capitalize on this relationship to enhance longevity. Andrea is passionate about creating products and services to enhance the lives of others, which is why she is working at Spore full-time.

In the Fall of 2021, Andrea Crewe, alongside her teammates, participated in the Design for Impact course. They submitted their design project, Spore, to the Stanford Longevity Design Competition because of their shared passion for bettering the lives of others. With 124 entries from 33 different countries, Spore was the only entry from the United States to be selected as a finalist and was awarded 3rd place internationally in April of 2022.

Since its inception in 2021, the team at Spore has been diligently working to bring Spore to market. They are currently in product development and aim to put Spore into customers' hands by 2026.

Sedef Doganer is the Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at Wentworth Institute of Technology and a Professor of Architecture.  Before joining Wentworth, she was a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she held roles as Department Chair and Associate Dean of Design, Inclusion, and Engaged Scholarship. Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture and tourism, with recent studies in heritage tourism, historic preservation, and sustainable tourism development. Dr. Doganer holds multiple degrees in architecture from Istanbul Technical University, is a registered architect in Turkey, and serves on the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee and the board of Docomomo/NE.

Dr. Gray's research focuses on disciplinary identity formation and the development and administration of curricular and extracurricular interdisciplinary project based learning programs. Dr. Gray has developed and refined teaching programs that foster student learning, disciplinary identity formation, and persistence. Through experiential learning initiatives such as his Interdisciplinary Senior Design Capstone (IDC), an Interdisciplinary Projects (IDPro) course, GrayUR and E2E research programs, and the Design for Impact (DFI) program, he fosters learning environments that attract and retain students from diverse fields. 

Dan Harding is a Professor of Architecture and Community Design+Build and serves as the director of the Community Research and Design Center (CR+DC) and the Architecture + communityBUILD graduate certificate program (A+cB) striving to ensure that South Carolina communities intently embrace the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainability. In 2013, DesignIntelligence named Harding as one of the thirty most influential design educators in the country, citing the impact of his community-centric work.