Meet the MBC

The Michigan Branch Committee (MBC) is a committee of the Telluride Association in charge of overseeing and providing support for the Michigan Branch of Telluride Association.

MBC members

  • Bianca (she/they)

    Bianca (she/they) is a Deaf Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy studying the intersections of ableism, audism, and anti-Arab racism. Born to a Lebanese-Quebecoise family, she is a former Telluride Scholar (CBTA19) and the recipient of both the Mike Yarrow Adventurous Education Award as well as the 2022 George Lincoln Burr Award. Since joining the association, she has served as a member of MBC. Meetings with Bianca must include ASL interpreters or captions.

  • Una

    Una Blagojević is a doctoral candidate at the Central European University in Vienna and a researcher on the project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis at the Babeș-Bolyai University. Her doctoral research focuses on the intellectual history of Marxist Humanism in socialist Yugoslavia, and she is broadly interested in the social, cultural, and gender histories of East Central Europe and beyond. She was a Sidgwick-Miller CEU Scholar at the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association (2021-2022), and she joined the Telluride Association in 2024.

  • Mira (she/they)

    Mira currently lives in a small hill station in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, where she works for the a local NGO supporting community-led archival work with Adivasi-Indigenous communities, collecting oral histories of migration, developing decolonial pedagogies, and seeking to ameliorate human wildlife conflict. She is also a co-founder and worker owner for Glow and Grow, a fundraising cooperative that helps bring resources to small nonprofits within Alabama and other parts of the American South, and serves as a Board member for the Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center, a Nunnian organization seeking to expand worker ownership through popular education and cooperative enterprise. She is a former member of CBTA ('20) and factotum for TASS-AOS ('23), as well as the recipient of the 2022 Dunham Award. Within TA, her past foci have included Inter-Nunnian relationships and the summer programs. In her free time, she enjoys growing things, reading, and connecting with loved ones—be it in the hills or across the ocean. Her email is mira.kudvadriskell@tellurideassociation.org