Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies and Global Black Studies Programs. Their work stages encounters between black study, queer theory, media, and art. They have written and lectured widely on networked intimacies and messy computational entanglements as they interface with qtpoc lifeworlds.

They are the author of Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, published by SUNY Press in 2013. They are also the co-editor of two edited collections, Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Their book Dragging: In the Drag of a Queer Life, forthcoming from Routledge, and their current project, Black Data, have been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Creative Capital | The Andy Warhol Foundation.

Andrés Monroy-Hernández is currently a principal research scientist at Snap Inc., where he manages the human-computer interaction research team, reporting to the company's co-founder and CTO. He is also an affiliate faculty at the University of Washington with appointments in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the departments of Human Centered Design & Engineering, and Communications. He is joining the Computer Science faculty at Princeton in the Fall of 2021. Previously, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research for six years, where he was in the leadership team of the FUSE Labs incubation team. He holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab, and a bachelor's in electronics engineering from the Tecnológico de Monterrey in México.