Chloë Barker is a research associate at Newcastle University and co-investigator of the project “Turning Fylingdales Inside Out: Making Practice Visible at the UK’s Ballistic Missile Early Warning and Space Monitoring Station,” where her focus is developing ways to engage non-specialist audiences in the station’s archive material and raise questions regarding nuclear deterrence and its cultural legacy. Her work previously focused on developing exhibitions making public for the first time materiality from the Fylingdales archive. Prior to that, Chloë spent 10 years working at cultural organizations ranging from Turner Contemporary to BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. She also served as assistant producer on the BBC Four Arena film “A British Guide to the End of the World.” She holds a master’s in exhibition studies from Central Saint Martins UAL and a bachelor’s in fine art from Chelsea College of Art and Design UAL.
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Collaborating with the climate justice and school climate strike movement, and building on campaigns that seek to change our shared future
Dr. David A. Bray has served in a variety of leadership roles in turbulent environments, including bioterrorism preparedness and response from 2000 to 2005, time on the ground in Afghanistan in 2009, serving as nonpartisan executive director of a bipartisan National Commission on R&D, and providing leadership as a nonpartisan federal agency senior executive. From 2017 to the start of 2020, David was executive director of the People-Centered Internet (PCI) coalition, chaired by internet co-originator Vint Cerf. Later he was invited to work with the US Navy and Marines on improving organizational adaptability and with US Special Operation Command’s J5 Directorate on the challenges of countering misinformation and disinformation online. In 2016, Business Insider named him one of the top “24 Americans Who Are Changing the World” under 40; he was also named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2019, David accepted a leadership role in incubating a new global center with the Atlantic Council. He has received both the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award and the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal. He is a former N Square Innovators Network fellow.
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Reshaping narratives and multinational awareness—both practical and policy-oriented—to address these challenges globally
Bernadette Cogswell is a research scientist at the Virginia Tech University Center for Neutrino Physics. She was previously a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow at the University of Manchester’s School of Physics and Astronomy and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. She works on technical and policy issues at the intersection of particle physics and nuclear nonproliferation. Bernadette is also an associate editor for the journal Science & Global Security. Her current research focuses on antineutrino detectors for treaty verification and safeguards and issues surrounding plutonium disposition.
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The area where I still see too little change in nuclear security work is in the lack of cross-disciplinary research teams doing nuclear threat reduction projects—teams made up of social and physical scientists along with great communicators and visualizers partnering on key issues related to nuclear threat reduction. Nuclear weapons are inherently technical but, I believe, at heart a social problem. We can’t “science away” nuclear weapons as they touch on value systems and fundamental beliefs about power and security that are personal, not technical. So a cross-team approach is a must to really understand why certain things work the way they do (or are proposed, such as nuclear monitoring schemes) and how to go about improving them. I think N Square, because it sits outside the traditional funding and dialogue silos of government, academia, and national labs, has an opportunity to really promote this kind of interdisciplinary work as the gold standard, rather than the quirky one off.
Bruce is director of policy and global security at Skoll Foundation. Previously he led Skoll Global Threat Fund’s nuclear nonproliferation and Middle East work and spent nearly a decade in the technology sphere with Oracle and Novell. Bruce began his career in the US State Department, serving in Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Italy, and in Washington, DC, working on, among other initiatives, the G-7 process, peace in the Middle East, and nuclear safety. He holds a BA in international relations from Pomona College and an MA in international affairs from Johns Hopkins.
Carl is currently an advisor to Longview Philanthropy while traveling in Kenya as part of a family gap year. For more than a decade, Carl led grant making in nuclear security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic fund which grants over $30 million annually to strengthen international peace and security. Carl previously worked with The Century Foundation and the Global Security Institute, where his research spanned arms control, international security policy, and nonproliferation. He is also cofounder of Interlude Artist Residency which supports a flourishing practice for visual artists who are actively parenting.
Andrew is the publishing manager at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a policy-focused think tank at Harvard Kennedy School. He specializes in producing academic works for print and digital publication, designing original data visualizations, and managing the Center’s brand. Andrew is also active in the field of nuclear weapons education, serving as teaching assistant for various graduate classes in Harvard’s nuclear deterrence certificate program and giving occasional lectures on technology, history, and cultural issues. Much of his work focuses on American nuclear policy through a historical lens, public education and activism, and how the presence of nuclear weapons affects society broadly. He has been featured in outlets such as The Boston Globe, The Hill, BBC Newsday, Arms Control Today, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and has spoken on the BBC World Service. A former N Square fellow, Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s in international relations from Harvard Extension School. His thesis explored a unique dimension of Mao Zedong’s ideology and the longlasting normative influence those beliefs had on China’s future nuclear policy choices.
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In the current cultural moment, synergies and partnerships between movements are more important than ever; there are potentially powerful intersections with existing movements in justice, environment, economics, and more. Articulating these intersections and making key connections will be the most important (and longest-lasting) bottom-up work that we can do.
