About the authors
Dr. Kelly Hogan, Professor of Biology at Duke University, and Dr. Viji Sathy, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill are both award winning instructors with a combined 30+ years in the classroom. They are passionate about student success, equity, and inclusion. They have expertise on inclusive techniques and active learning in any size crowd, because both have significant experience teaching hundreds of students. They worked for many years together administratively at UNC Chapel Hill in which they led curricular initiatives, institutional grant projects, and helped build a variety of technology tools to support student success. Kelly and Viji have shared their work with faculty through hands-on workshops at numerous types of institutions. Both have been active in the scholarship of teaching and learning in their respective disciplines of biology and statistics and their work has been featured in a number of national publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times. In 2022, they published a book titled: Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom, sharing practical ideas that often can be implemented quickly.
