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A Londoner from Adelaide, Rachel Ho runs Craving Coffee (with her partner Matt); a mum, musician on hiatus, accidental feminist and intentional humanist. She tells us about keeping her business going through the pandemic and how crowd funding has allowed them to stay open.

Dr Joe Cox is Canada聽Research Chair in Digital Disruption and Organisational Transformation at Athabasca University in Canada.聽

He has an extensive track record of research in the digital economy, focusing on emergent digital phenomena such as crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and citizen science.聽 Dr Cox is interested in understanding the ways in which technology impacts upon established economic behaviours, particularly when traditional interactions take place in online environments.聽

His research makes use of innovative approaches to collect and analyse data in order to explore the motivations, behaviours and outcomes of participants in the digital economy.聽 His body of published work offers considerable insight to commercial and policy decision making in digital and online contexts.

He explains the underlying mechanisms of crowdfunding and how visibility can predict a funders behaviour.

Executive Director of the ESSEC Philanthropy Chair, Arthur is聽Assistant Professor at ESSEC Business School in the Public and Private Policy Department.聽
His research focuses on philanthropy and more broadly on private initiatives for the common good, from organizational, sociological, psychological and historical perspectives. He studies the emergence and the institutionalization of individual and corporate philanthropy, both as concepts and practices. He is also interested in hybrid philanthropic practices combining multiple institutional logics, such as impact investing, crowdfunding, and foundation-owned companies.
He discusses the different motivations of people contributing to crowd funding projects, the importance of reciprocity and how guilt can sometimes make us give.

Dr. Erin Smith is an Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Response in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University in Australia. World renowned for her expertise in first responder mental health and well-being, Dr. Smith is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) where she also holds the position of Convenor of the Psychosocial Special Interest Group.聽

Erin is an emergency response volunteer with Red Cross Emergency Services Victoria and The Code 9 Foundation.

She explains how survvior guilt is evolving as an idea during the COVID panademic. It not only applies to people who've survived the disease but also to people who felt they haven't been as badly affected as others and now feel bad about it.

Shamani Joshi is a 22-year-old writer and journalist based in India, currently working with VICE. She focuses on reaching out to Gen Z and Millennial audiences covering topics ranging from politics, human rights, rave culture, niche profiles and bizarre angles.聽

She enjoys binge-watching true crime documentaries, kicking back with ASMR videos and making deep house playlists. She likes her humour like her coffee: dark.聽

With lockdown in India imminent Shamani left Mumbai for the safety of her family home in Goa. While there she began to feel ever more guilty as she saw the hardship others were having to endure. She explain to us how it affected her and what she did with those feelings.

Jennifer Herdt is an ethicist, whose work ranges across issues in religious and philosophical ethics, with a focus on dignity, character, ethical formation, and the virtues.聽 She is Professor of Christian Ethics at the Yale University Divinity School.

She explains to us how guilt work as an emotion of self-assessment and it differs from shame as it can urge us to do something about what we've done or failed to do.聽

Mehreen Kasana is a journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She currently covers tech, politics, and culture at Input Mag. She previously worked at The Huffington Post and The Nation.

She tells about an incident of online guilt tripping gone wrong. When AirBnB invited former guests to donate to the hosts whose properties they'd stayed in they couldn鈥檛 have expected the backlash they would receive on social media. People took to twitter to express their anger at being asked to support people who've had a negative impact on the property market and accelerated unwelcome gentrification.