Join the VCU Humanities Research Center, VCUarts, Rams in Recovery, and Richmond’s Inclusive Recovery City Initiative for Recovery in Practice at the VCU Institute for Contemporary Art from April 17-19, 2025.

Margaret Hu is the Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab, at William & Mary (W&M) Law School. Her research focuses on the intersection of civil rights, national security, cybersurveillance, and AI.

Jo-Jo Koo joined the Department of Focused Inquiry at VCU as an Assistant Professor starting in the Fall of 2022 and is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS). He has teaching and research interests (among other areas) in critical thinking, normative and applied ethics, philosophy of race and gender, critical social philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical hermeneutics, Chinese philosophy, and the debate of determinism versus free will.