Carrick Pierce believes strongly in nuclear arms control, that there is no greater existential threat facing our world today. A former options trader who graduated from Georgetown University and also studied at Carnegie Mellon, Carrick has spent a career on Wall Street designing and developing derivatives trading platforms. He’s worked for hedge funds, banks, and exchanges and also served as CEO of a derivatives software firm. While Carrick continues with his day job, he is increasingly involved in helping to raise awareness of the nuclear threats we live under today.

Daniel Pedraza is passionate about leveraging technology at scale. He relates with techno-optimist philosophies but is fully aware of the risks inherent in all new technology. Daniel was recently selected to participate in the 2018 Assembly program held at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab, where he will be part of a cohort looking at challenges and governance of AI. Daniel is cofounder of Veilos, a deep-learning startup rethinking global insights for agriculture. As data innovation specialist for the United Nations Global Pulse, Daniel has looked at open challenges to harnessing data for sustainable development and humanitarian action. An advisor to N Square, Daniel helps spark tech-related ideas to nuclear threat reduction. As a child Daniel dreamed of becoming an astronaut, leading him to study aerospace engineering, focusing on computational methods and aerodynamics.

Born and raised in New Mexico, Elizabeth Kistin Keller received her BA in political science and Latin American studies as a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her MA and PhD in international development studies (a combination of political science, economics, and anthropology) as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Before joining Sandia National Laboratories, Elizabeth spent several years working on water conflict and cooperation in North America, Southern Africa, and South and South East Asia. She currently works in Sandia’s Systems Analysis Department (Org. 159) where she leads work on strategic foresight, global security dynamics, and policy analysis, including the future of nonproliferation. Elizabeth also serves as an adjunct professor in the University of New Mexico’s department of geography and environmental studies and an affiliate of the Utton Transboundary Resources Center at the UNM School of Law.

A tool-builder and teacher, Elizabeth Talerman works with organizations to establish meaning, clarify purpose, streamline decision-making, and turn strategy into action. With a background in marketing, communications, and brand building, she uses evidence-based research methods to identify patterns that lead to the insights necessary for creating binding connections, accelerating growth, or catalyzing change. A recent recipient of a MacArthur grant for work on engaging new generations in efforts to reduce the threat posed by nuclear weapons, Elizabeth is also the leader of Nucleus Strategy, on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts’s graduate program in branding, a frequent lecturer at Barnard College, and on the boards of PopTech and Mohawk Fine Papers.

Emily Rothschild is an industrial designer and educator with a background in fine arts, art history, and curatorial studies. Prior to attending Graduate School at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), she worked for museums and art education organizations in New York City. Upon graduating with a MID from RISD in 2008, Emily started her own line of objects and jewelry and cofounded the design firm Hello, We Are ____. The firm works with teams of designers and makers on research-based design projects ranging from cookware to medical design. Their work has been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times, and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Emily teaches graduate and undergrad studios in industrial design at RISD and Parsons School of Design.