Faith Adiele has authored two memoirs, The Nigerian-Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems and Meeting Faith; coedited Coming of Age Around the World; and was writer/subject/narrator of the PBS documentary film My Journey Home. She teaches at VONA/Voices, SF Writers Grotto, and California College of the Arts.

Amy Gigi Alexander is a writer, editor, publisher, and explorer. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the internationally focused literary journal, Panorama: the Journal of Intelligent Travel, and the Publisher of the American-based press, Panoramic Publishing, both of which focus on travel literature.

Amy Lam is a a writer and editor. She is a contributing editor at Bitch Media and editor at On She Goes. Amy is a Kundiman fellow, a John & Renee Grisham fellow at the University of Mississippi where she is an MFA candidate, and cohost of Backtalk podcast.

Laurie Hovell McMillin is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Oberlin College and edits Away Journal: Experiments in Travel and Telling. She writes nonfiction and frequently focuses on South Asia. Her second book is Buried Indians: Digging up the Past in a Midwestern Town.

Dr. Anu Taranath is a speaker, facilitator, consultant, and educator. She teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle about social justice, global literatures, travel ethics, and postcolonial studies, and works with organizations, agencies, and businesses to deepen their equity practices.