Antoinette Jackson

Antoinette Jackson is Professor & Chair in the department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa and Director of the USF Heritage Research Lab. She earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida, a MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, and a B.A. in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University. Dr. Jackson completed a 4-year federal appointment as the Regional Cultural Anthropologist for the U.S. National Park Service Southeast Region in May 2016. Her work on heritage has been published widely. Her book Speaking for the Enslaved—Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites, was published by Routledge in 2012. And her new book on Heritage, Tourism, and Race—the Other Side of Leisure was recently published by Routledge in 2020.

Lee Huang

Lee Huang brings over 20 years of experience in economic development experience to Econsult Solutions’ (ESI) public, private, institutional, and not-for-profit clients. He leads consulting engagements in a wide range of fields, including higher education, economic inclusion, environmental sustainability, historic preservation, real estate, neighborhood economic development, non-profits, retail, state and local government, strategic planning, tax policy, and tourism/hospitality, and is a sought-after speaker on these and other topics. His higher education clients have included Carnegie Mellon University, Emory University, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, and the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. His economic inclusion work has included analyses of the utilization of minority- and women-owned businesses in municipal contracts in Philadelphia, as well as examinations of home lending, business lending, and branch location patterns in Philadelphia Washington, DC, and New York City.

Prior to joining ESI, Mr. Huang was a director with Econsult Corporation. From 1995 to 2005 he managed The Enterprise Center, an entrepreneurial center in West Philadelphia where he acquired extensive experience in day-to-day management as well as strategic decision making. Most recently he served as executive vice president, a position in which he was responsible for all programs and operations, and helped manage a staff of fifty and interns, and a $1.2 million budget. He was also founder of The Enterprise Center’s YES (Youth+Entrepreneurship=Success) Program, and Director of Cities Beyond, The Enterprise Center’s consulting department.

Mr. Huang serves as one of the nine Philadelphia Board of Education members appointed by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney. The Board oversees the School District of Philadelphia, which currently has over 200,000 students and a $3 billion annual operating budget. Lee also serves on the University Place Associates (UPA) Advisory Board; UPA is Philadelphia’s leading sustainable and socially conscious commercial real estate development firm.

Mr. Huang earned a Masters of Public Administration from the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received certificates in Public Finance, and Economic Development and Growth. Lee received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dual concentration in Accounting and Management.

Rebecca DeJoseph

Rebecca DeJoseph is an Associate Director at Econsult Solutions, Inc. In addition, Ms. DeJoseph is currently a lecturer of Economics and Statistics at the Community College of Philadelphia.

Prior to joining ESI, Ms. DeJoseph worked as a senior economist in the Economic Analysis and Information branch of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In this position, she provided economic analysis of regional labor market data for the media, private business, and general public through customized presentations, reports, and news releases.

From 2009 to 2015, in her previous role with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Rebecca served as a liaison for the Federal government with State labor market agencies to improve data quality in the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program. Additionally, she produced and evaluated employment estimates for the Current Employment Statistics program.

In 2013, Ms. DeJoseph earned her Master’s in Economics from Temple University. She received a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University.

Jeremy Park

Jeremy Park is a first-year PhD student in Health Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington. He completed his BS in Computer Science at NC State University, where his research involved using computer vision to track dog tail wag in order to learn more about dog behavior. Ultimately, he wants to use data science methods for environmental justice purposes.

Dee Baecher-Brown

Brown has been president of the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI) since 1996. Prior to moving to St. Thomas in 1995, Brown worked in program development and not-for-profit management in New York City. She has a master’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. She currently serves on the USVI Governor’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Committee; University of the Virgin Islands, Presidential Advisory Council; Federal Board of the Regional Education Laboratory – Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI); and the National Campaign for Grade Level Reading

Daniel Eisenberg, ph.d.

Daniel Eisenberg is a Research Assistant Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and Deputy Director of the NPS Center for Infrastructure Defense. Dan’s research focuses on the design, operation, and adaptation of resilient infrastructure systems with emphasis on applying resilience engineering theory to improve system design and emergency operations. He uses tools from operations research, engineering, and public administration to link built and social systems together and identify fragilities in existing practices. He currently leads projects on the design and management of resilient island and military installation infrastructure systems. Dan is also an educator and helps advance critical infrastructure knowledge worldwide through in-residence classes at NPS and the delivery of NATO short courses across Europe and the Middle East.

Dan received his Ph.D. in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Davis. Prior to joining NPS, he was a research engineer with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. He has received several prestigious fellowships to lead international research projects, including a Fulbright Fellowship and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 

David Alderson, ph.d.

David Alderson is a Professor in the Operations Research Department and serves as Founding Director for the Center for Infrastructure Defense at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA.  Dr. Alderson's research focuses on the function and operation of critical infrastructures, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. His research explores tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, fragility, and resilience in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems.

Since January 2018, Dr. Alderson has led the FEMA-funded effort by NPS to support recovery and hazard mitigation in the USVI.  Working closely with UVI, this project specifically focuses on (1) ongoing modeling and analysis of interdependent infrastructure systems within the territory, with emphasis on assessing and improving their operational resilience; (2) support for the development of a next-generation hazard mitigation and resilience plan in the territory; and (3) capacity building efforts via the development of an education and training pipeline for knowledgeable professionals who understand and think about hazard mitigation and operational resilience of the USVI in everything they do.  Details can be found at https://www.nps.edu/web/cid/usvi.

Dr. Alderson received his doctorate from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University.