Anita Fuentes has a BA in media studies from Hampshire College (MA, USA), and a Master's in research methodologies in social science from Complutense University (Madrid). Her lines of research include media studies, antifeminism, and gender-based violence. She is currently the executive producer and host of the Security in Context podcast and a regular collaborator at the Spanish political podcast La Base.

Damon Lynch has a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology (2020) from the University of Minnesota. He has worked for civil society organizations in South and SouthEast Asia, the Middle East, and his home country Aotearoa / New Zealand. He is also an accomplished photographer and software developer. He has an MA (2007) in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a BSc (1994) in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington.

Joshua Landis is Sandra Mackey Chair and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and the Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Oklahoma in the Boren College of International Studies. He writes and manages SyriaComment.com, a daily newsletter on Syrian politics and publishes frequently in policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, Middle East Policy and Foreign Policy. His book, "Syria at Independence: Nationalism, Leadership, and Failure of Republicanism," will be published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies this coming year. He is a frequent analyst on TV, radio, and in print and is a regular on NPR and the BBC and has received three Fulbright grants to support his research in Syria.

Rabie Nasser is an economist, researcher and co-founder of the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR). His areas of expertise and research include macroeconomic policies, inclusive growth, poverty, and conflict socioeconomic impact assessment. Nasser holds a MSc in Economics from Leicester University, UK. Before joining the SCPR, Nasser worked for the State Planning Commission as chief economist and director general of the Macroeconomic Management Directorate between 2004-2005. He later worked as an economic researcher for the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait. Since 2008, he leads several United Nations research projects.

Elaine Lowaty (they/them) Elaine is a queer anarchist feminist living in Egypt. They write about the fragility of queer geographies, they look for ways to produce softness within precarity, they host spaces for connection, and produce knowledge on queer intermovement building.

Yara Ahmed is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, whose research interests include affect and the everyday, mobility, and queer theory.

Kasia Paprocki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her first book, "Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh", was recently published by Cornell University Press.