Silvia Rivera Alfaro is a student at the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures and a GC Digital Fellow. She is co-founder of Indisciplinadxs: Feminist Linguistics Circle, an international Spanish-speaking community of professionals and activists working on language, gender, and sexuality.

Miriam Laytner is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also a Mellon Humanities Public Fellow. In her role as a Mellon Fellow, she helps research institutions across New York City to develop events and agendas that raise public engagement with social science research for such institutions as New York Academy of Sciences–Anthropology Section and the Institute for Religion Culture and Public Life at Columbia. Her dissertation research focuses on the intersection of faith-based movements, environmentalism, and the climate crisis in the United States. Prior to attending graduate school, Miriam worked for many years as a scuba instructor and hiking guide in the Caribbean, Alaska and Australia. Miriam holds a B.A. in History from Barnard College and an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University. She is a proud New Yorker.

Yunhua Zhao is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research concentrates on the area of machine learning for software engineering, especially software quality assurance and mining software repositories. She taught discrete mathematics, and during the Open Knowledge Fellowship process, she finished her class syllabus for the course entitled Introduction to Discrete Structure at Brooklyn College using Open Access resources.