Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at NYU. Jeff is author of Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (2018) and Food, Animals, and the Environment (2018). He is also an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, a board member at Minding Animals International, a senior research fellow at the Legal Priorities Project, and a mentor at Sentient Media.

✉️ jeffsebo@nyu.edu

In addition to serving as Program Coordinator at the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, Sofia is Fellowship Director at the Reducetarian Foundation and Program Coordinator at the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program. She also serves as an advisor to the board of the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. Previously, Sofia was the managing director at Animal Charity Evaluators, project manager at Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, and copy editor for The 80,000 Hours Podcast. Sofia is a graduate of the NYU Environmental Studies program, where she served as a research assistant. She also pursued an MPA at Baruch College's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

✉️ sofia.fogel@nyu.edu

Toni has worked as a researcher, writer, and editor for a variety of academic and nonprofit institutions. In addition to her work with the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy and the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program, she conducts independent and contract research. Previously, she worked as an editor at the Center for AI Safety, a research fellow at Longview Philanthropy, and the managing editor of Social Theory and Practice. She also worked as the director of research for Animal Charity Evaluators, where she led charity evaluations and managed two grant programs. Toni studied philosophy at NYU and received an MA in philosophy from Georgia State University.

✉️ tsa231@nyu.edu

Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy with appointments in Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. Ned came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of perception and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science. He is author of The Border Between Seeing and Thinking (2022) and Consciousness, Function, and Representation: Collected Papers, Volume 1 (2007), editor of Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volumes 1 and 2 (1983; 2014), and co-editor of The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates (1997), among other works. He is co-director of the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness.

✉️ ned.block@nyu.edu

Sam Bowman is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Data Science, and Computer Science at NYU and, during a 2022–2023 sabbatical, a member of technical staff at Anthropic. His research focuses on developing techniques and datasets for use in controlling and evaluating large language models, and additionally on applications of machine learning to scientific questions in linguistic syntax and semantics. He is the senior organizer behind the GLUE and SuperGLUE benchmark competitions, and his work has been funded by the US NSF (including through a CAREER award), Google, Apple, Samsung, Schmidt Futures, and Open Philanthropy, among others.

✉️ bowman@nyu.edu

David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (1996), Constructing the World (2010), and Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the PhilPapers Foundation. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem, and for the idea of the “extended mind,” which says that the tools we use can become parts of our minds.

✉️ chalmers@nyu.edu

Becca Franks is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU. She was previously a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow with the Animal Welfare Program at UBC, where she was awarded the Killam Research Prize. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of environmental and animal protection, specializing in animal behavior, aquatic animal welfare, quantitative methods, and human-animal relationships. In addition to publishing scholarly articles, commentaries, and book chapters, she co-edited a special issue for the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science and is an Associate Editor for the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

✉️ beccafranks@nyu.edu

Joshua Lewis is Assistant Professor of Marketing at New York University. His research focuses on decisions that have important implications for wellbeing, such as philanthropists deciding which cause to tackle, politicians deciding which policy to adopt, or scientists deciding whether to publish potentially dangerous findings. Current research questions include why people neglect catastrophic risks, why people neglect high stakes outcomes with low probabilities, and why people are intolerant of uncertainty in altruistic decisions. His work has been published in leading journals such as Psychological Science and Journal of Experiment Psychology: General.

✉️ joshua.lewis@nyu.edu

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU. Matthew uses the tools of philosophy to study and examine the ramifications of novel biomedical innovations. He is author of The Right to be Loved (2015), editor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020) and Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2015), and co-editor of Current Controversies in Bioethics (2016) and Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2015), along with numerous articles. He is also a TED speaker and has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and numerous other media outlets.

✉️ matthew.liao@nyu.edu

Claudia Passos-Ferreira is Assistant Professor of Bioethics at NYU. She previously held postdoctoral positions at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She has published a book on Freud and mental causation, has published on self-knowledge, introspection, and external mental content, and has collaborated in cross-cultural research on moral development and social cognition (on topics such as empathy, fairness, ownership, and intersubjectivity). She is the PI of the project What do theories of consciousness predict about consciousness in animals, infants, and machines? funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation.

✉️ claudiapassos@nyu.edu

César Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the Editor in Chief of Open Global Rights, and the Founding Director of the Earth Rights Advocacy and the Future of Rights programs at NYU Law. He has published widely on global governance, international human rights, climate litigation, comparative constitutionalism, Indigenous rights, and the rights of nature. His most recent book is Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Courts, Human Rights,

and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action (ed. Cambridge University Press, 2022).

✉️ cesar.rodriguez@nyu.edu

Katrina Wyman is the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law at NYU School of Law, where she teaches and researches in the areas of Property, Urban Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law, among other subjects. Wyman is co-faculty director of NYU Law’s Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law, and faculty director of the Law School’s LLM program in Environmental and Energy Law. Wyman also runs an annual reading group on animal law, which addresses topics like animal farming, nonhuman personhood, and animal welfare regulations. Wyman was awarded the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2020. She has a BA, MA, and LLB from the University of Toronto, and an LLM from Yale Law School.

✉️ katrina.wyman@nyu.edu