Leighland Feinman is the founder of the Better Worlds Conference, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology in Biology and History, and a microbiology PhD student in Manhattan. In his spare time, he writes science fiction, travels, and thinks about how people interact with themselves and each other.
Jon Napolitano is head of the Better Worlds web team, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology in Computer Science, and a software developer in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also an actor, a martial artist, and an adventurer.
Humza Kazmi is head of the Better Worlds abstract team. He has graduated from the University of Maryland with a BA in history, and is currently enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is interested in the dynamics of counterinsurgency warfare, the effects of state constitutions on foreign policy, and rolling polyhedral dice.
Ekaterina Kuznetsova is an MIT graduate, who could subsist entirely on diet coke and chocolate truffles, but doesn’t. Instead, she works as a software engineer somewhere in Cambridge, MA.
Reuven Lazarus is a computer programmer, nuclear reactor operator [Editor's Note: No joke there], and freelance sardonicist completing his degree in physics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is fascinated by the world’s second time derivative.
Aaron Feldman is a member of the Better Worlds logistics team. He is a mechanical engineering graduate of the Cooper Union. He works as a design engineer at a semiconductor manufacturer in New Jersey. He is the owner of a carefully maintained list of reasons why he’s a bad person.
Craig Montuori is helping the Better Worlds Conference connect with college and university campuses. He is an aerospace graduate of the California Institute of Technology. He now works as the data guru for the Republican State Committee of New Jersey, while remaining a committed liberal. He is in the process of transitioning out of New Jersey to join a startup in Silicon Valley. He likes studying historical trends to better understand the coming future.
Kate McCormick is a member of the Better Worlds logistics team. She is an archaeology graduate of Boston University and is currently trying to break into the exciting world of skeletal biology. In the meantime she occupies herself by climbing tall things and helping other people climb tall things in the Philadelphia area.
Those who spend too much time writing career guides commonly describe Michelle Hasier as a “graphic designer.” She did not attend Caltech but loitered around campus for so long she may as well say she did. When not creating a more aesthetically pleasing world, she’s usually found cleaning cat hair off her clothes.