Jesica Siham Fernández is a community-engaged researcher and teacher-scholar, whose work is grounded in a decolonial feminist praxis oriented toward, and in alignment with, participatory action research paradigms. Jesica utilizes photovoice as a pedagogical and methodological tool to foster the sociopolitical development and wellbeing of youth, students, and Latinx communities in their struggles toward liberation, healing, and transformative justice. She is currently an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University, and the author of "Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship" (NYU Press). 

Sara Coemans holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Leuven. Her scholarly interest lies mainly in the following areas: arts-based research, participatory research approaches and social pedagogy. She currently serves as coordinator qualitative methods for FLAMES (Flanders' training network for methodology and statistics) where she organizes and teaches qualitative research courses to junior researchers. She is also a lecturer at University College Leuven-Limburg, where she is involved in the Child and Youth Studies programme. Besides being an academic, she worked in the past as a policy member of a non-profit organization situated in the field of community-based practice; where she focused on collective work with communities and groups for social change. She has been a board member of one of the regional institutes for Community Development in Belgium since 2013.

Katherine Carroll is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. An applied sociologist who works with the health sector to examine and transform how health services are experienced and delivered, she uses participatory, qualitative, and visual research methodologies with research participants, health professionals, patients, and caregivers. Her areas of interest include the sociology of reproduction and motherhood, perinatal medicine, and lactation sciences. Using the methodology "video reflexive ethnography," Katherine works with health professionals to highlight and optimize the often hidden, underappreciated, or overlooked practices for the successful delivery of healthcare. She is currently working on the topic of lactation after infant death with the aim of improving health services for bereaved parents, using quilt-making as an arts-based method to start difficult conversations.

Bettina Kolb uses the participatory visual method "photo interview" in social science research for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects in planning for a sustainable future. As a member of Oikodrom – The Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability, Bettina has used photo interview in projects in China (SUCCESS - Sustainability Process in Chinese Villages and their Sustainable Future), Vietnam and Mexico (NOPOOR, Enhancing Knowledge for Renewed Policies against Poverty) and Egypt, Morocco, Turkey and Syria (Hammam, the Turkish bath), and Belgium (Syncity). Bettina is a lecturer in sociology and visual sociology at the University of Vienna, Department of Social Science, where she is a member of the "Transdisciplinary Vienna Visual Studies" group. She also lectures at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences and University College of Teacher Education, Vienna. She is a founding member of the WieNGS – Vienna Network for Health Promoting Schools (wiengs.at).