Bianca (any/all pronouns) is the Early Career Faculty Fellow in Feminist Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. Currently serving as the Chair of the Michigan Branch Committee, they are the first Agender signing, Deaf person to receive a Ph.D. in Philosophy. They are a former Cornell Branch Scholar (CBTA19) and the recipient of both the Mike Yarrow Adventurous Education Award as well as the 2022 George Lincoln Burr Award. Honestly, they just really like cats.

Mira Kudva Driskell currently lives in a small hill station in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, where she works for a local non-profit supporting community-led archival work with Adivasi-Indigenous communities. In addition, she serves as a Board member for the Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center—a Nunnian organization building worker ownership in Alabama through popular education—and contributes to their fundraising cooperative (Glow and Grow) as well as their summer program in Birmingham (Lamplight). She is a former member of CBTA ('20) and factotum for TASS-AOS ('23), as well as the recipient of the 2022 Dunham Award. Within TA, she has worked on Inter-Nunnian relationships, summer programs, and looks forward to returning to MBC for another year! In her free time, she enjoys extravagantly long walks, reading, and connecting with loved ones—be it in the hills or across the ocean. 

Michael Becker is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland - College Park, where he teaches classes in colonial American and Caribbean history, and works as project manager and associate editor for the Slavery, Law & Power digital history project. His first experiences with Telluride were as a summer program participant in 2008 and a factotum in 2011. He has been on the Board since 2013, where he has been involved in a range of areas, from summer programs, to institutional infrastructure and finance, to branches. He’s excited to be working with MBC and MBTA this year!