Wetherholt is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on religion in U.S. popular culture, with a dissertation centered on religious deconversion narratives in graphic memoirs.

Ryan Williams is an archaeologist, museum curator, and professor. With deep interests in the South American Andes, he studies climate change in the human past, as well as economic and political interactions in communities.

Teaches Psychology of Religion in study abroad settings, and is currently investigating implicit racial bias and its potential influence on sentencing disparity in the criminal justice system.