Richard Beach is professor of English education at the University of Minnesota and president of the Literacy Research Association (2012). Gerald Campano is an associate professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. Brian Edmiston is associate professor of teaching and learning at The Ohio State University. Melissa Borgmann has worked as a high school English teacher, a literacy coach, a K-12 teaching artist, and as director of The Juno Collective, which centers on literacy through the arts.