Naomi Lindstrom is the Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Co-Director of the Gale Collaborative for the Study of Jewish Life in the Americas at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Her recent books are Early Spanish American Narrative (2004) and The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing (1998). She manages the listserv of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.

Nerina Visacovsky received her PhD from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a Senior Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and Senior University Professor at the University of San Martin (UNSAM). Her principal fields of research are left-wing Jewish identity and education in South America. She is also Director of the Centro de Documentation y Biblioteca (CeDoB) Pinie Katz at the ICUF (YKUF), Buenos Aires.

Raquel Torenberg was born and raised in Mexico City. A sociologist and an expert in education, she attended the University of Hartford and the Jerusalem Fellows program in leadership in Jewish education. From 2004-2011, she served as academic director at the Universidad Hebraica and from 2012-2018 she was principal of the Colegio Hebrew Sefaradi, both in Mexico City.

Pete Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Mississippi State University. He is the author of “Something On My Own”: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956 (Syracuse University Press, 2007). His research interests include the intersection between 20^th century media history, politics, and gender.

Vincent Brook has a PhD in film and television from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been a lecturer at UCLA since 2005 and taught for extended periods at California State University, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. He has written dozens of scholarly articles and authored or edited nine books, several on Jewish images in media, including Something Ain't Kosher Here: The Rise of the "Jewish" Sitcom (2003), You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture (2006), Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir (2009), and From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood (2017). 

Einat Lachover (Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University, 2003) is a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College. Her work is dedicated to critical analysis of the encounters between gender and a broad range of media forms and contexts, such as gendered construction of news production; gendered discourse in news media; gender ideologies in popular media; and girlhood and media.

Renée Levine Melammed is a professor of Jewish History at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem whose fields of research include the lives of conversos and Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish women. Her current project deals with women’s lives as reflected in the Cairo Genizah, in particular, through letters. She has published numerous articles in four languages, as well as the books Heretics or Daughters of Israel: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile (Oxford, 1999); A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in Historical Perspective (Oxford, 2004); and An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty (Indiana University Press, 2013). She is also the academic editor of Nashim.

Susan Landau-Chark earned her PhD in Jewish Studies from Concordia University (Montreal). Her thesis was on the Role of the Contemporary Rabbinical Wife in Canadian Society. Her most recent publication is "Traversing the 49th Parallel: The Jewish Experience Prior to 1881," in Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes: Reflections and Refractions Between Canadian and American Jews (2016)

Leonard Bell (School of Humanities, University of Auckland) is the co-editor of Jewish Lives in New Zealand: A History (2012) and the author of Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840-1914 (1992), In Transit: Questions of Home and Belonging in New Zealand Art (2007), Marti Friedlander (2009 & 2010), and Strangers Arrive: Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand 1930-1980 (2017). His Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists will be published in August 2020.

Miriam Bell is a journalist, writer, and editor who works across a range of publications, including several Australasian Jewish media titles. She has contributed to the books, Jewish Lives in New Zealand and Identity & Involvement Volume III: Auckland Jewry into the 21^st Century. She has a MA from the University of Auckland and a graduate diploma in journalism from Auckland University of Technology.