Cathy N. Davidson is Faculty Director and Head of Pedagogical Design of Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH), a CUNY initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is Distinguished Professor of English and in the MA in Digital Humanities and MS in Data Analysis and Visualization at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is Founding Director of the Futures Initiative, a program dedicated to advancing equity and innovation in higher education. She recently served as keynote speaker and panelist at the Nobel Prize Committee’s Forum on the Future of Learning in Santiago, Chile and has won many grants and fellowships over her career including from the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Mellon, and MacArthur Foundations.