Work with thought leaders and academic experts from New School

Thomai Serdari, Ph.D. is a strategist in luxury marketing and branding. She helps clients launch, grow, and successfully manage luxury brands. She is an expert on luxury and actively studies, values, and reports on companies or funds that operate and invest within the luxury goods market. Prof. Serdari has been teaching at New York University since 2004 and at Stern since 2012. She developed the core courses for the Luxury Marketing specialization among others and became Academic Director of the Fashion & Luxury MBA in 2019. Originally trained as an architect at the National Technical University of Athens, Prof. Serdari received her doctorate in Art History & Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2005. She also holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, with a specialization in corporate and quantitative finance (2009).

Angela Jones is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Jones's research interests include African American political thought and protest, sex work, race, gender, sexuality, feminist theory, Black feminisms, and queer methodologies and theory.   Jones is an award-winning teacher and writer. Jones is a recent winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Jones is currently working on a mainstream trade monograph under contract with the legacy feminist press Seal Press. It is tentatively entitled Sex Lives: Erotic Power and the Social Life of Sexuality. Jones is the author of *Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Industry* (NYU Press, 2020) and *African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement* (Praeger, 2011). They are a co-editor of Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century (NYU Press, 2024). Jones is also a co-editor of the three-volume *After Marriage Equality* book series (Routledge, 2018). Jones has also edited two other anthologies: *The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama* (Routledge, 2012), and *A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias* (Palgrave, 2013). Jones is the author of *African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment,* published in 2023, and a forthcoming book, *Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook* both with Bloomsbury. They are also the author of scholarly articles, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as *Social Problems*, *Gender & Society; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Sexualities; Disability Studies Quarterly; Porn Studies;* *International Journal of Gender, Sexuality, and Law;* *Culture, Health, and Sexuality; Sociology Compass; Fat Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society; Sexuality and Culture; Sociological Focus;* *The Journal of Historical Sociology;* and *Interalia: a Journal of Queer Studies.* Jones also writes for public audiences and has published articles in venues such as *Contexts (digital), The Conversation, the Nevada Independent, Peepshow Magazine, PopMatters*, and *Salon.*

**Proficiencies** • Clinical Trials • NIH •Regulatory • CTMS • JIRA •SAAS •SharePoint •FDA Regulations • Medidata •RedCap • Research Billing • IRB/WIRB • eTMF •CAPA •Patient Recruitment •SOPs •Management •IVRS/IXRS • GCP • ICH • CRF • EPIC • Data Management • Clinical Trials Operations •Documentation Review • SPSS • Microsoft Office • Protocol Management •Oncology, Neurology, ALS, Concussion, Cardiology • Certified Phlebotomist

August Rust is a sustainability advocate for healthier designed futures. As a materials researcher across projects in the built environment, they work with teams to integrate healthier, equitable material and design practices. Clients include Business of Home, Hyloh, Well-Designed, NYC Sanitation Foundation, NY Pollution Prevention Institute, Drake / Anderson, Roots Radicals & private brands. While studying sustainability, design and science at the New School, they began working with Parsons Healthy Materials Lab as material librarian developing resources such as the [HML Textile Guides](https://healthymaterialslab.org/tool-guides/textile-guides) and healthy material collections. <br> <br> <br>