Dr. Christina Ceisel earned her Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a focus in cultural studies, transnational popular culture, and qualitative methods. She holds a M.A. in Social Science from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. in Media Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Smith is an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Personal research interests include critical internet studies, hypercommericalized media texts and consumer culture, and the various mass media discourses surrounding environmentalist identities through both lifestyles and governmentality frameworks.

Russell is an Associate Professor at Emerson College. His work explores the intersections of the political economy of communication, neoliberalism, the epistemological foundations of media policymaking, commercial and governmental surveillance, and activism surrounding communications policy.

Rachel Guldin is a PhD candidate in Communication and Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
She researches neoliberal capitalism and racism in media literacy education and takes a critical cultural approach to analyze popular culture.

Alongside his scholarship and teaching, disciplinary service on the intersections of social justice and media, Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing. He has written in scholarly venues such as Popular Music & Society, Popular Communication, The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, as well as public venues such as The Intercept, Transom, NPR Codeswitch, All Things Considered, Invisibilia, and VICE. Kumanyika is also the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, Gimlet Media’s podcast on the Civil War and he is the collaborator for Scene on Radio’s influential Season 2 “Seeing White,” and Season 4 on the history of American democracy

Alicia Kozma and Chair and Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Washington College. Dr. Kozma combines a practical focus on media labor with critical inquiry to understand how media industries work, who works in them, and how the labor of media workers is constructed. She focuses specifically on women and other minority workers in film and television workspaces.

Emil Marmol holds a PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. As an interdisciplinary scholar with experience in professional film and radio production, he has published articles and book chapters on critical media literacy, fake news, censorship, journalism, film, Cuban society, the impact of neoliberalism on higher education, repression of Latina/os in education, standardized testing, social studies education, and labor struggles. His doctoral thesis is an autoethnography/testimonio about growing up as the son of Latino immigrants in Orange County, California, and the ways that interpersonal, institutional, structural, and systemic racism impacted his educational trajectory.

Aaron is an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication and Associate Dean of the School for Professional and Continuang Studies at California Lutheran University. His research focuses on media industries and financialization.

T.C. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) where he coordinates the Master of Arts in Communication Studies. T.C.’s research examines the relationships between wealth, power, and the media, also known as the political economy of communication (PEC). He’s specifically interested in sports media, the 'hope labor' of interns and other digital laborers, critical realist philosophy, and that paradigm’s methodological implications for PEC. He also loves a good culture jam

Dr. Andrew Kennis is an invited scholar affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, where he serves as a coordinating member of a research collective based at the College of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS). Dr. Kennis is a nationally inducted researcher in a program (SNI) run under the auspices of Mexico’s National Council on Science and Technology (CONACyT) and recently published a book prefaced by Daniel and Noam Chomsky and Robert W. McChesney entitled, Digital-Age Resistance: Journalism, Social Movements and the Media Dependence Model. As a pedagogue, he currently teaches graduate-level classes at Rutgers University after having also taught at UNAM, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at El Paso and many other universities from both sides of the border while also continuing to practice as an international and investigative journalist, having reported from locations ranging across four continents and dozens of countries.es here

Bill Yousman, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Media and Performing Arts Department at Sacred Heart University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in media studies and political communication. He earned his doctorate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His research focuses on media and the construction of ideology, media literacy, media and race, and the relationship between media and democracy. His scholarship has been published in many academic journals and edited volumes. Dr. Yousman’s monographs include Prime Time Prisons on U.S. TV: Representation of Incarceration and The Spike Lee Enigma: Challenge and Incorporation in Media Culture, and he is a co-editor of the award-winning anthology series Gender, Race and Class in Media. He has presented his work at numerous regional, national, and international conferences, and he is a regular panelist on WNPR's The Colin McEnroe Show.

Helena is an Associate Professor of Media Arts, Department of Arts and Humanities, School of Informatics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Robert Morris University. He research interests include: critical political economy of communication; cultural studies; media industries; film, television, streaming, and video; theory, history and production; terrorism and media; film and international politics