Dr. Clara M. Chu is Director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs and Mortenson Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a leading voice in international and multicultural library and information science (LIS) education, research and practice. Dr. Chu publishes, presents and consults worldwide in English and Spanish on equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and development (EDIAD) in global context, strategic planning, and emerging technologies and trends. She is Coeditor-in-Chief of Library Trends, and Co-General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science Online.

Lalitha Nataraj is the Social Sciences Librarian at California State University, San Marcos. She holds an MLIS from UCLA and a BA in English and Women’s Studies from UC Berkeley. Lalitha also spent several years as a public librarian championing the inclusion of diverse materials in children's and teen library collections and continues to write professionally for School Library Journal. Her research interests include feminist pedagogy, critical information literacy, South Asians in librarianship, and scholarly inquiry and the research cycle. Lalitha has authored and co-authored several papers and presentations focused on the application of Critical Race Theory and Librarianship, most recently "Nice White Meetings: Unpacking Absurd Library Bureaucracy through a Critical Race Theory Lens" with fellow CSUSM colleagues, Holly Hampton, Talitha Matlin, and Yvonne Meulemans.