Boby Akhi is a full-time faculty in the Business Administration and Accounting department at SUNY Corning Community College and is pursuing a Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership at Maryville University. She obtained three Master’s degrees and two bachelor's degrees. She was awarded a Presidential Gold Medal for securing a first-class position in her first graduate program. Boby has four years of teaching experience as an adjunct professor, guest lecturer, and Assistant teacher in the USA and Bangladesh. Alongside her teaching roles, Boby has held administrative and corporate positions, including International Admissions Counselor at Augustana College and IT Training Coordinator at John Deere. Her academic interests span Leadership and Gender, Corporate Diversity and Inclusion, International Business, and Women Entrepreneurship. Originally from Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Boby now resides in Horseheads, NY. Her family, consisting of her parents and a brother, lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Fluent in four languages, Boby is an active member of JCI (Junior Chamber International).

Professor Borden spent her early career working for the Department of Defense, giving her a very strong understanding of the requirements for success in the world outside academia. Her research focus has been on learning and memory and how to transfer that scientific knowledge to the classroom. One large research project involved determining the effect of four different teaching methodologies on student learning and retention. Another was a massive evaluation of the efficacy of the First Year Experience improving student retention. Always a student advocate, she received the prestigious “National First Year Student Advocate” award from the National Center for Students in Transition and the First Year Experience. Her courses, while based on research, have a very strong “real world” application approach. Her teaching philosophy is that “Psychology should be used every day.”

Tabbi Carter is a graduate of Herkimer County Community College and current student at Empire State University. She has worked in online learning since 2002. She works in online learning supporting students, faculty, and staff and assists with the college-in-prison program.

Claire Ehrlich has been the Reference and Instruction Librarian at Mohawk Valley Community College since 2019, helping students meet their information needs one-on-one and in the classroom. She also serves as chair of the campus Faculty Caucus workgroup on Artificial Intelligence and frequently consults with faculty about artificial intelligence questions. She has been a professional librarian for 13 years, at both public and community college libraries.   She holds a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame and a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Chris earned B.A.s in Philosophy and Creative Writing, as well as an M.F.A. in Creative and Professional Writing from Western Connecticut State University. He has been teaching introductory English courses for fifteen years. He's a new hire at TC3, having previously taught at Westchester Community College and the University of New Haven, where he first became interested in the concept and practices of Intrinsic Motivation.

Catherine Stollar Peters is Associate Director of Assessment and Data Analysis at the State University of New York, Office of Library and Information Services. She works with SUNY OER Services to demonstrate the immense impact OER and open pedagogy has had on faculty and student success across the system in recent years. Previously, she held positions in public libraries, at New York State Archives and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Additional research areas of focus include research data management, digital archives, socio-technical interactions, and evidence based library and information practices.

Devin Sonne is an Instructor of Chemistry at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) in Utica, NY. In addition to teaching, Secretary for Faculty Caucus, and advisor to the student science club (ATOMe) and is the treasure for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) faculty group. Devin began her educational journey as a returning adult student at MVCC after a career in manufacturing and distribution. She studied chemistry and engineering and after graduating MVCC, Devin transferred to the University of Rochester where she earned an B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. in Environmental Studies. Soon after she attended SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry earning an M.P.S. in Environmental Chemistry, with a research focus on microplastic pollution in freshwater systems. Devin worked at a Health, Safety, and Environmental Manager for Kerry Bio-Science until her she was hired for her dream job of full-time Chemistry Instructor at MVCC. In her spare time, she seeks out science puns and loves to make soap and body products as her pet project, devinneedsahobby.com.

Jacqueline Tiermini is a professor in the Humanities Department at Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC), teaching Developmental English and Composition I. She is also the part-time Liaison of K-14 Outreach and Partnerships working on strengthening the relationship between FLCC and the area school districts. Previously, she was the Project Manager of the Regional Education Continuum Program, a five-part series of professional development opportunities for high school and FLCC faculty, staff, and administrators focused on college readiness. She also worked on the assessment team at FLCC to strengthen her own classes and to guide others to take a closer look at what they were teaching and why/how they were teaching it. Her current passion for bringing a variety of stakeholders together to support students on their pathway to career mirrors her educational roles over the years, where she fostered collaboration between stakeholders to emphasize success for each individual student. She recently completed a Doctor of Education degree at Northeastern University, and the title of her dissertation was “‘The System is Built Upside Down’: Constructing a Collaborative Model for Career Awareness.”