Madeline Ostrander is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and the author of At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth, a 2023 Nautilus Book Award gold winner for ecology and environment and one of Kirkus Reviews' 100 best nonfiction books of 2022. Her work has also appeared in the The Atlantic, The NewYorker.com, The Nation, Sierra Magazine, PBS’s NOVA Next, Slate, High Country News, Audubon, and numerous other outlets. Ostrander has taught narrative journalism, science-writing, essay-writing, and nonfiction at Seattle’s Hugo House.

Lisa Wade is an Associate Professor at Tulane University with appointments in Sociology, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Newcomb Institute. She is the author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus; an introduction to sociology titled Terrible Magnificent Sociology; a sociology of gender textbook, Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions, with Myra Marx Ferree; and numerous other research publications. Her newest project documents undergraduate social life during the pre-vaccine pandemic.

Kate Lacour is a cartoonist, illustrator, and taxidermist focusing on visionary anatomy.

Walt Handelsman is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Times-Picayune/ The Advocate. His work is nationally syndicated by Tribune Content Agency in Chicago to over 200 newspapers around the country and internationally.
 
One of the mostly widely reprinted cartoonists in America, Handelsman’s work has been seen in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune. He has been a featured guest on CNN, FOX, The NewsHour and Nightline.
 

Ronan Farrow is an investigative reporter and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. He is also currently producing documentaries for HBO.

Kyle Bravo is a cartoonist whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and Antigravity magazine. He self-publishes the autobio mini-comic series Forever and Everything. Kyle was a founding member of the New Orleans artist-run collective gallery space The Front and the custom letterpress and screenprinting studio Hot Iron Press along with his wife, artist Jenny LeBlanc.