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Brian Cody is the CEO and co-founder of Scholastica, a provider of academic journal publishing software. Brian currently serves on the boards of the Novo Collegian Alliance and AltLiberalArts. He attended New College of Florida for undergrad 2002-2006, serving on the New College Board of Trustees in 2004-2005 and the New College Foundation board in 2007. He obtained his master's degree from the University of Chicago in sociology. He is a self-taught Ruby on Rails programmer. Brian is the father of two, and lives in Chicago.

Adele Fournet is a music producer and video artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is also a music scholar and holds a PhD in music from New York University. She writes about the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetics in popular music production with a geographic focus on the Americas. Adele has received support for her research from Fulbright, the NYU McCracken Foundation, Humanities New York, and the NYU Center for the Humanities.  She has performed her original music at cultural institutions including Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center while also participating in and celebrating independent and DIY music spaces.   She will be joining the Jacobs School of Music at IU-Bloomington in the fall as an assistant professor of music production.  Adele has an audio and video production company called Bit Rosie. The Bit Rosie web series (www.bitrosie.com) features female and gender expansive music producers and is an inaugural component of the NYU library's first music-related video streaming web archive.  Her films have been screened on PBS New York, the NYC Independent Film Festival, and Cine Las Americas Film Festival, among others. Current personal music projects include Tipa Tipo and La Banda Chuska. 

Juliana Paré-Blagoev is trained in developmental psychology and educational neuroscience. Current research efforts include understanding and addressing the unique educational needs of pediatric survivors of childhood cancer. Her earlier work included lab-based research that used a combination of brain and behavioral methods to explore skill and language learning. Later collaborative and classroom-based research created and tested STEM classroom tools that were grounded in cognitive science and informed by practitioner’s expertise. As a founding member of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society, she has worked to improve the bidirectional integration of knowledge from research and educational practice. She currently is associate editor for the society’s journal, Mind Brain and Education.