is Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Professor of German and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a core faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.

Thomas E. Bell has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent, UK.

Alexandre da Silva Faustino has a PhD in Urban Geography completed at the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and is member of The Alliance for Praxis Research.

Wendy Steele is Research Director at RMIT Europe, Spain, and a Professor in Sustainability and Critical Urban Governance in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia.

Ann Ward has a PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University, USA and works at the Office of Sustainability at Tufts University, USA.

Mariana Arjona Soberón is a PhD Candidate at the Rachel Carson Center and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany.