Amber Díaz Pearson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, where she worked on the 2012 Winter Forum team. She also works with the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and teaches international law and refugee policy for DukeImmerse:Uprooted/Rerouted. Prior to joining the Institute in August 2011, Amber was a Kenan Graduate Fellow and held the 2010-2011 Instructorship in Ethics. Her interests in political science include international ethics, public opinion, and foreign policy; her research uses experimental methods to study public opinion responses to perceived deception by political leaders. Amber holds a B.S. in Political Science and a B.A. in Spanish from Arizona State University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University.

Nadia El-Shaarawi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, where she worked on the 2012 Winter Forum and teaching as part of DukeImmerse. Prior to joining the Institute in August 2011, she was a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she also received a Master’s in Public Health. Her interests in medical and psychological anthropology include the effects of forced migration on health and well-being, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. Her dissertation, based on fieldwork with Iraqi refugees in Egypt, is entitled “Living an Uncertain Future: An Ethnography of Displacement, Health, Psychosocial Well-being and the Search for Durable Solutions among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt”. Nadia also holds an MSc in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford in England and a BA from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.