Soyoun Jang is a designer and Ph.D. student in Digital Media at Georgia Tech, where she is advised by Jay D. Bolter in the Augmented Environments Lab. Her research lies at the intersection of media studies and HCI, integrating humanities-based perspectives and methods into inclusive and sustainable design. She also works as a design researcher with the AIAI Network at Emory University.

Jay D. Bolter is the author of several books in media studies, including Remediation (1999), with Richard Grusin and RealityMedia with Maria Engberg and Blair MacIntyre (2021). Bolter is also the Director of the Augmented Environments Lab and works with colleagues and students on the design of augmented and mixed reality experiences for cultural heritage, informal education, and expression and entertainment.

Richmond Wong is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He directs the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab where his research seeks to create social, cultural, and organizational environments that can support technologists and designers in ethical decisionmaking. Richmond’s work utilizes qualitative and design-based methods that propose alternate ways to consider and address social values during technology production processes. 

Heidi Biggs is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech’s School of Literature Media and Communication. They research environmental sustainability and more-than-human research in HCI and design. Their work uses first person, arts based, humanistic, historical, and qualitative methods grounded in theory to explore human and non-human entanglements. 

Robert Soden is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, where he organizes the Toronto Climate Observatory. Robert’s work draws on human-computer interaction, science and technology studies, and design to evaluate and improve the information systems we use to understand and respond to socioenvironmental challenges such as climate change and disaster.

Vera Khovanskaya is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information. Prior to joining the Faculty of Information, she was a CRA Computing Innovations Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, where she was a member of the Just Transitions Initiative, the Feminist Labor Lab, and the Design Lab. Her research examines the impacts of data collection in the workplace, the opportunities and challenges of data-driven approaches to worker advocacy, and the barriers to worker-centered and community-driven technology design. Prior to her current role, she organized with UAW 5810 and Cornell Graduate Students United.

Laura Forlano, a Fulbright award-winning and National Science Foundation funded scholar, is a disabled writer, social scientist and design researcher. She is Professor in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University. She is the author of Cyborg (with Danya Glabau, MIT Press 2024). She received her Ph.D. in communications from Columbia University.

Sasha de Koninck is a visual artist, designer, and educator. While studying textiles in undergrad, she was introduced to the field of electronic textiles and wearable technology. She went straight to graduate school after completing her BFA, in order to further continue the expansion of her research. She recently completed her Ph.D in Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she worked with Laura Devendorf and the Unstable Design Lab. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research fellow at Northeastern University in Boston, where she works with Laura Forlano in the Critical Futures Lab.