Safiya Umoja Noble (“Missed Connections”) is a recovering urban advertising executive and current Information in Society Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When she isn’t lying in bed with her newborn son unpacking information-communication technologies with feminist and critical race-theory lenses, she’s spending her time finishing up a PhD in library and information science and theorizing about race, gender, and technology.

Lesley Kinzel (“Standing Out”) has been engaging with body politics and social justice activism for well over a decade. She cofounded and moderated the blog Fatshionista for five years, from 2005 to 2010. She has her own popular fat fashion and pop culture blog, Two Whole Cakes; she is also a regular columnist for XOJane.com. Over the years, Kinzel has become the go-to fatty for all things fat fashion and fat pop culture, and has been quoted on ABC News and CNN, as well as in the Guardian, the Boston Globe, the New York Post, and the New York Times. She resides in the Boston area with her husband and a well-tended stable of cats.

Tina Vasquez (“Tea Mates”) is a freelance writer and editor from the Los Angeles area working on her first book, which involves sifting through her teenage journals and reminiscing about all the interesting women she has known. Her work has appeared in the quarterly Canadian feminist magazine Herizons, as well as in Curve and Bound. For a while she wrote the Meet & Eat column for the food blog Serious Eats, but then got over wanting to be a food writer. She regularly contributes to the magazine SexIs and the online business community The Glass Hammer.

Alyssa Rosenberg (“Fans Behaving Badly”) is a culture reporter for ThinkProgress.org, and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com and Loop 21. Alyssa grew up in Massachusetts and holds a BA in humanities from Yale University. Before joining ThinkProgress.org, she was the editor of Washingtonian.com and a staff correspondent at Government Executive. Her work has appeared in Esquire.com, The Daily, the American Prospect, the New Republic, National Journal, and the Daily Beast.

Leslie A. Wood (illustrations, “Better Homes & Bloggers”) is a 25-year-old illustrator who was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She received a BFA in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where she can be found constantly putting pencil to paper.