Faith Bjalobok, PhD.
Faith is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, as well as a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She holds masters' degrees in criminology and philosophy; and specializes in applied ethics. Faith is also the founder of the Fluffyjean Fund for Felines, founder and president of the Washington County Animal Abuse Relief Fund (WAARF), and a committee member of Life Changing Service Dogs for Veterans. She has been a Torch Awards for Ethics judge since our program's inception.
Min Geiger, PhD.
Min is an Assistant Professor of Management at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and holds a PhD in Management from West Virginia University. Her research explores implicit biases that may disadvantage employees from marginalized groups and how the use of algorithms can perpetuate these biases in organizations. Min’s research has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Nature Machine Intelligence, and Group & Organization Management. Her dissertation work was recognized by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has been a Torch Awards for Ethics judge since 2024.
Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa, PhD.
Akwasi is an Associate Professor of Management specializing in business ethics at Duquesne University’s School of Business Administration. He has a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Brown University, an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (Switzerland), and a PhD in Organization Management from Rutgers University. His research has appeared in publications including the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Business and Society journal. He has been a Torch Awards for Ethics judge since 2016.