Mara Mills is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Mills is cofounder of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method.
Harris Kornstein is Assistant Professor of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona. They have published research and essays in Surveillance & Society, Curriculum Inquiry, Wired, and others.
Faye Ginsburg is Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Ginsburg is cofounder of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community and coauthor of Disability Worlds.
Rayna Rapp is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at New York University, and the author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America and coauthor of Disability Worlds.
Judith Heumann (1947-2023) was an internationally recognized disability rights activist, widely regarded as one of the leaders of the Disability Rights Movement. Judy worked in the Clinton and Obama Administrations, as an advisor at the World Bank, and as a Senior Fellow at the Ford Foundation. Her story is featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) and her book, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (2020). She continued to be active until her death at age 75 on March 5, 2023. See https://judithheumann.com/
Ed Yong is a science writer. For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism, among other honors. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: I Contain Multitudes, and An Immense World, which won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
