Andrew Ballon is the Communications Program Coordinator for the Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center in Downtown, Mesa; part of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.

Thomas Lutes is a Ph.D. Journalism & Mass Communication Candidate at the Walter Cronkite School. His research relies on critical discourse analysis of drag performers and their kinship structures in popular media.

McHugh teaches courses in interpersonal communication. A contributing editor and ancillary author for Oxford University Press textbooks in this area, she also works on philosophy and ethics texts for other publishers. 

Katherine Morrissey is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. Her research focuses on representations of female desire in popular culture, genre networks, and the impacts of digitization on creative communities.

Bauer is an assistant professor of interactive media and games.

Mundel is executive director of Global Initiatives at the Cronkite School. His research looks at the unintended effects related to exposure to mediated messages. He teaches strategic communication.

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.

Donnell Probst is a media literacy educator and librarian. She is the associate director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE).