Anna D. Gibson studies the intersection of community, labor, and justice in digital spaces. She earned her MA and PhD from the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where her doctoral work focused on volunteer moderation on Facebook. During her graduate career she earned fellowships with the McCoy Family for Ethics in Society and the Stanford Ethnography Lab, and she was awarded the Centennial Award for excellence in teaching. Her research on content moderation has been published in Social Media + Society and Information, Communication and Society. Anna also holds a BA in linguistics and cognitive science from Pomona College.

Elisabeth Mesiner has a PhD from the University of Maryland from the department of Teaching & Learning, Policy & Leadership. She holds an MS from in curriculum and instruction with a focus on science education and a BS in social science education from Florida State University. Her research centers around reformed, responsive science instruction, problems of practice, and science teacher identity, particularly with early career science teachers. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a sixth grade science teacher at a developmental lab school affiliated with Florida State University.