Kalindi Vora is Professor and Chair of Ethnicity Race and Migration, and Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and of American Studies with an affiliate appointment in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. She is author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (winner of the 2018 4S Bernal Prize), Surrogate Humanity: Race Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures (co-authored with Neda Atanasoski, 2019); Re-Imagining Reproduction: Surrogacy, Labor and Technologies of Human Reproduction; and Technoprecarious (with the Precarity Lab).

Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and Associate Director of Education for the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). Atanasoski’s interdisciplinary research has focused on feminism and AI, feminist and critical race approaches to science and technology studies, AI and the future of work, militarism, and human rights and humanitarianism. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013), co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019), and co-editor of Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution (2022) and Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (2025). She was the editor of the journal Critical Ethnic Studies, the flagship journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, from 2018-2024. Prior to UMD, Atanasoski was professor of Feminist Studies and founding co-director of the Center for Racial Justice at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Redi Koobak is a feminist cultural studies scholar who specializes in critical studies of postcolonial and postsocialist Europe. She currently works as Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Her expertise includes global perspectives on gender, race, and sexuality, visual and art activism, transnational feminism, the intersections between postcolonial and postsocialist feminist theorizing and practice, and creative writing methodologies. Redi is the lead editor of the volume Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (2021) with Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, and the co-editor of the volume And Words Collide from a Place: Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminism (forthcoming in 2023) with Nina Lykke, Petra Bakos, Swati Arora and Kharnita Mohamed. Redi also serves as the co-editor of European Journal of Women’s Studies.