Dan Gillmor, a journalist and author, is co-founder of the News Co/Lab (http://newscollab.org) at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he is a professor of practice.

Dell’Anna has been teaching Italian at ASU since 2005. Her areas of teaching and research include teaching Italian language through literature, Italian mass media communication, and pedagogy in language teaching.

Fellner is a three-time Fulbright Scholar (Latvia, Moldova and Bulgaria) and four-time Fulbright Senior Specialist (North Macedonia, Indonesia, Lithuania and Latvia).

Sadowski-Smith works in border and migration studies. She has published "The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States," "Border Fictions," and "Globalization on the Line."

Jurik's research and teaching interests address issues of gender, occupations, work-related technology, and work organizations.

Benkert is a historian of modern Germany working on the history and memory of both dictatorships on German soil.

Mark Scarp is a former newspaper reporter, editor, editorial writer and columnist who in recent years has worked in public relations and community relations in the Phoenix area.

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

As a scholar, Weight is fascinated by the interface of religion with media, news, the social construction of reality, and other social institutions like the arts, politics, family, and education.