Javier Arbona and Bryan Finoki are cofounders of the experimental landscape arts/research collective DEMILIT, which works to excavate the “spatial leaks” of state power. Arbona is a Puerto Rican geographer and an Assistant Professor in American Studies and Design at the University of California Davis. His work broadly spans critical military studies and spatial politics, collaborating with a number of artists, designers, and curators. Finoki is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in numerous galleries and events, including the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Steirischer Herbst festival.

Adrienne Brown is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of two books: A volume of essays co-edited with Valerie Smith, Race and Real Estate (Oxford, 2015) and The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (Johns Hopkins, 2017).

Ingrid Burrington is the author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure (Melville House, 2016). She works at the Data & Society Research Institute.

Dan Handel is an architect and the curator of design and architecture at the Israel Museum. His exhibitions include First the Forests (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2012), Aircraft Carrier (Venice Biennale, 2012), and Design Matters (The Israel Museum, 2017). He is the editor of Aircraft Carrier (Hatje Cantz, 2012), Yasky and Co. (Tel Aviv Museum, 2016), and of Manifest: A journal of American Architecture and Urbanism.

Sukjong Hong is a writer and web editor at The Architect's Newspaper, with a background in architecture and urban planning. She was previously a reporter-researcher at The New Republic and an Open City fellow with the Asian American Writer's Workshop. She publishes journalism in the form of writing and comics about labor, immigration, militarism, among other topics.

Ana María León is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan with appointments in the departments of History of Art, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Architecture. She is part of several collaborations laboring on broadening the reach of architectural history including the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC), the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC), and Detroit Resists.

Nicholas de Monchaux is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), as well as Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2016). He is a partner in the Oakland, CA-based practice Modem.

Enrique Ramirez is a scholar and historian of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. He is working on a manuscript that considers how exchanges between architectural and aeronautical cultures in eighteenth and nineteenth-century France constructed new, modernized ideas about air and the natural environment.

Jennifer Scappettone is the author of the critical study Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice and of two cross-genre verse collections: From Dame Quickly and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump. Her research and writing practice has extended through installation and performance into engagement with built environments such as Trajan’s aqueduct on the Janiculum Hill; Fresh Kills Landfill; and the stripped residential housing of 6018|North for the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Imre Szeman in University Research Chair in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. His recent books include After Oil (2016), Energy Humanities: An Anthology (2017), Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture (2017), and the fourth edition of Popular Culture: A User’s Guide (2017). A collection of his essays, On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, Energy: Selected Essays, 2001-2018, will appear later this year. He is currently at work on Transitions: On the Politics of Energy for MIT Press.

Mabel O. Wilson is an architectural designer and cultural historian. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). At Columbia University she is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies. She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide.