Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She earned her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 and writes and teaches in science and technology studies, feminist theory, and multispecies studies. She has served as thesis adviser for over 60 doctoral students in several disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. At UCSC, she is an active participant in the Science and Justice Research Center and Center for Creative Ecologies.

Attending to the intersection of biology with culture and politics, Haraway’s work explores the string figures composed by science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, science and technology studies, and multispecies worlding. Her books include Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene; Manifestly Haraway (2016); When Species Meet (2008); The Companion Species Manifesto (2003); The Haraway Reader (2004); Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium (1997, 2nd ed 2018); Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (1991); Primate Visions (1989); and Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields (1976, 2004). A feature-length film made by Fabrizio Terravova, titled Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival, ( 2016, available as a DVD). With Adele Clarke she co-edited Making Kin Not Population (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018), which addresses questions of human numbers, feminist anti-racist reproductive and environmental justice, and multispecies flourishing.

Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, Banu’s work engages the feminist studies of science in the practices of experimental biology. Author of Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (University of Illinois Press, 2014), and coeditor of MEAT! A Transnational Analysis (Duke University Press 2021), Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), and Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (Routledge, 2001). Banu’s current work focuses on decolonizing botany and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India.

Moya Bailey is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. Bailey currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative in Digital Humanities. She is also the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. She is an MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT for the 2020–2021 academic year.

Dr. Max Liboiron (they/she) develops and promotes anticolonial research methods into a wide array of disciplines and spaces. As founder of CLEAR, an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations, Liboiron has influenced national policy on both plastics and Indigenous research, invented technologies and protocols for community monitoring of plastics, and led the development of the interdisciplinary field of discard studies. Liboiron’s book, Pollution is Colonialism, will be released by Duke University Press in April 2021. Dr. Liboiron is an Associate Professor in Geography and is formerly the Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Research) at Memorial University.

I am a feminist scholar working on technologies and knowledge dialogues. I currently focus my research interests on handmade textiles as technologies of knowledge and care. I am the founder of Artesanal Tecnológica and work at the School of Gender Studies at the National University of Colombia. I am interested in transdisciplinary work from which to explore methodologies that enable transformative research and pedagogies.

Thao Phan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She is a feminist STS scholar who analyses the technologization of gender and race in algorithmic culture. Her article ‘Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness’ was awarded the 2019 Nicholas C. Mullins Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). She is also the co-founder and convenor of AusSTS—a network that brings together STS researchers across the Australasian region.

Aimi Hamraie is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University, where they direct the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability, design justice, and the lifeworld. Their interdisciplinary research spans critical disability studies, science and technology studies, critical design and urbanism, critical race theory, and the environmental humanities. Hamraie is also a certified permaculture designer, a co-founder of the Nashville Disability Justice Collective, and an organizer for the Nashville Mutual Aid Collective.
Hamraie lives and works in the original homelands of the Cherokee East, Chickasaw, and Shawnee people.

Kevin Gotkin is an artist, academic and activist. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture & Communication at New York University and Co-Director, with Simi Linton, of Disability/Arts/NYC from 2016 - 2019. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. His writing has been published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Dance Magazine, The Avery Review and more. He is currently the Artist-in-Residence in the Critical Design Lab. His creative work includes a disability-centered DJ practice, audio production and video works.