Melanie Asp Alvarez is the Executive Director of Academic and Career Success at the Cronkite School. She serves on Cronkite's Leadership Team and ASU's Student Success Leadership Council.

Kevin Sandler's books include The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-Rated Movies, Titanic, and Hanna and Barbera: Conversations. Upcoming ones are Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and The Hanna and Barbera Anthology

Sören Hammerschmidt teaches 1st-year comp, 2nd-language writing, and developmental writing. His research focuses on 18th-century and Romantic literature, correspondence networks, media culture, portraiture, and authorship.

Kristy Roschke is a media literacy scholar and educator. She is the director of the News Co/Lab, an initiative aimed at advancing media literacy via journalism, education and technology.

Doctoral candidate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Specialized in Dark Web research, illicit communities, and media ecology of dark web communication technologies.

Djordje Padejski a computational journalism scholar working at the intersection of journalism, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence, researching both disruptive and transformational impact of AI on journalism and news media ecosystems.

Kirtz is an assistant professor of media studies and algorithmic culture and founding co-director of the TechnoMaterials Lab.

Alex M. Lee is an artist who utilizes 3D animation, video game engines, XR, machine learning and simulation technologies in order to investigate contemporary modes of representation, artifice and technical images.