Dr. Ying Zhen is an Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Wesleyan College, where she serves as the Economics Program Director. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Clark University in 2012 and joined the faculty of Wesleyan College right afterward. She has been teaching in the undergraduate program and MBA program at Wesleyan. Her major fields of specialization are Labor Economics, Cultural Economics, and Industrial Organization. Specific research interests include the Music Business and Economics of Immigration. She considers economics a universal science, which should be open to everyone. Her ultimate goal is to help students see the world through the eyes of an economist, making them appreciate the beauty of economics and become civilized world citizens.

Andrew J. Russell is an attorney and counselor-at-Law for the State of New York. In 2008, he graduated from Albany Law School with a Juris Doctor degree and was admitted to practice law in 2009 in all Courts of the State of New York as well as the Federal Court System. He has been a partner at Russell, McCormick & Russell since 2015 and was a Town Judge from 2019 to 2022. He teaches Ethics and Legal Aspects of Business (MBA) and Business Law at Wesleyan College.

Aaron Crippen is a writer and translator whose awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the PEN Texas Literary Award for Poetry. He attended the University of Virginia, graduating with honors, then spent most of the 1990's living and teaching in China, where he became proficient at translating Chinese poetry. This led him to complete a Master of Fine Arts degree and a doctorate at the University of Houston. He then taught for several years in Georgia before moving on to the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing. Now, Dr. Crippen has been teaching Writing at ASU's Tempe campus for six years, during which time he also earned an M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction--ESL at ASU, making him a proud alumnus of ASU as well as a faculty member. Dr. Crippen enjoys and finds urgency in helping to prepare students for the future. He also loves running the desert trails in Tonto National Forest.

Dr. Christa Robbins received her Ph.D in Art History from the University of Chicago. She is an associate professor of twentieth and twenty-first-century art and criticism at the University of Virginia. She recently published a book with the University of Chicago Press, titled Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting, which offers the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. She was the advisory editor of North American modernism for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and her publications can be found in several journals including the Oxford Art Journal, Criticism, Art in America, and Critical Inquiry.

Howard Chiang is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and M.A. in Social Science from Columbia University. He is the author or editor of twelve books including After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2018), which received the International Convention of Asia Scholars Humanities Book Prize and the Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

Dr. Matthew J. Pereira earned his doctoral degree in Religion from Columbia University in NYC. Prior to joining the History Department at Oklahoma State University in 2019 where he teaches courses in Religious Studies, he taught at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA.) from 2013-2019. While his teaching portfolio and academic interests are wide and diverse, his primary area of research has been in the History of Christianity, in particular, Late Antiquity (4th - 6th centuries).