Dr. Pierre-Valery Njenji Tchetgen is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media & Design, jointly appointed in the Music and Art+Design departments. He works at the intersection of music, education and experience design. He focuses on three primary areas related to these disciplines: drummologie and music-based interventions, culturally-relevant pedagogy and cultural computing. Dr. Tchetgen studies how culturally grounded early literacy and STEAM experiences affect children’s learning and development, and how transforming the ecology and pedagogy of early childhood education can improve these experiences, particularly for underserved children. These areas are integrated through applied research by using co-design methods to promote children's human, cognitive and socio-emotional development.

Dr. Tchetgen is also a faculty affiliate with Africana Studies and the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service. He is a former Bridges Fellow with the Center for Design and World Making/World Building Fellow with the Center for Humanities (2023-24) at Northeastern University.

Gregory Gold is an experience designer focused on educational applications, with a background in interactive data visualization and music technology. He contributes to research and development by designing intervention strategies for varied learning contexts and prototyping new digital resources across the UGP ecosystem.