Krysta Battersby
Krysta Battersby
Community Manager
Krysta Battersby, Executive Director of the McNulty Scholars Program at Hunter College, is a Higher Education and Student Affairs professional who is passionate about helping scholars grow while developing and cultivating their skills and talents. After receiving her Master’s in Higher Education and Student Affairs from NYU, she was responsible for academic and student affairs for a department at NYU Tandon’s School of Engineering, while collaborating with other NYU offices and personnel to enhance the Tandon student experience. Her time at NYU Tandon helped her identify her interest in supporting students, especially women and students of color, towards achieving their academic and career goals within STEM. While providing student support services at Hunter College, she is also completing her doctorate at NYU Steinhardt, focusing on faculty support and mentorship for Black and Latina women in STEM.
She has been instrumental, behind the scenes, in ALL of De Angela’s symposia except for #Batdance30ATL at Spelman College.
De Angela L. Duff
De Angela L. Duff
Symposium Creator & Curator
What Did Prince Do This Week? #WDPDTW Co-Host
ATWIAD Roundtable
De Angela L. Duff is an Associate Vice Provost at New York University and Industry Professor in Integrated Design & Media (IDM) at NYU Tandon. She also curates music symposia as polished solid, including this virtual celebration and the upcoming Prince #EroticCity40 Symposium (2024), celebrating 40 years of Prince’s Purple Rain, The Time’s Ice Cream Castle, Sheila E.’s The Glamorous Life, and Apollonia 6’s eponymous debut and Prince #Come30 Virtual Symposium (2024), celebrating 30 years of Prince’s Come; presents about music, design, and technology, internationally, at numerous conferences and events including All 7 Years: The Past, Present, and Future of Prince Studies at the University of Minnesota (2023), Black Portraiture[s] VII (2022), Pop Conference 2021, Prince 78-88: An Interdisciplinary Conference (2021) and 2nd Dayton Funk Symposium (2021), writes about music most recently in Prince’s Diamonds and Pearls (Super Deluxe Edition) (2023), AMP: American Music Perspectives (2022), Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture (2022), and the edited book volume Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life (2020); speaks about music, most recently at Prince’s Paisley Park (2023), on WNYC, Minnesota Public Radio radio, and BBC Manchester radio shows; appears in documentaries such as We Want The Funk! (2025) and Prince: The Final Secret (2023); and produces and co-hosts What Did Prince Do This Week? #WDPDTW, a weekly online book club series. You can view her past and present work at polishedsolid.com or subscribe to her newsletter at polishedsolid.substack.com.