Rini Astuti's research focuses on Indonesia's extensive peat fires, deforestation, and climate politics. She 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.

Judith Van Allen is a Regional Scholar Affiliate at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University and a long-time activist-scholar. She received her B.A from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in political science and political theory. She has been writing about African women for more than 40 years, beginning with her work on the 1929 Igbo Women’s War. She remains concerned with integrating gender and the study of women into African studies, and integrating the study of African women into U.S. gender studies.

Pedro Erber is an Associate Professor at the School of International Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He is also associate editor of the journal ARTMargins. He specializes in Brazilian literature, intellectual history, and visual culture.