Tonette S. Rocco, graduated from The Ohio State University and serves as a professor in adult education and human resource development at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She is a Houle Scholar, a member of the 2016 class of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, 2016 Outstanding HRD Scholar and recipient of more than 25 awards for scholarship, mentoring, and service. Her other books include Challenging the Parameters of Adult Education: John Ohliger and the Quest for Social Democracy (with Grace, Jossey-Bass, 2009); Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing (with Tim Hatcher, Jossey-Bass, 2011); Handbook of HRD (Wiley, 2014; with Chalofsky and Morris) and the Routledge Companion to HRD (2014; with Poell and Roth); Disrupting adult and community education: Teaching, working, and learning in the periphery (SUNY, 2016; with Mizzi and Shore). She is Editor-in-Chief of New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development.

M Cecil Smith is a professor in the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the College of Education and Human Sciences at West Virginia University, where he also previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education. In addition to publications in several leading journals in education, he has edited books on reading, adult literacy, adult learning and development, and teaching educational psychology. He earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robert C. Mizzi is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is also former president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education and the current editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. Robert has worked in over 15 countries as a researcher or educator, has authored over 50 articles on his research, and has published five books. Robert's research in adult education includes topics relating to sexual and gender diversity, transnational identities and work, and social justice.

Lisa R. Merriweather is an associate professor of adult education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Co-founder and Senior Editor of Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal. She received her PhD in Adult Education with a graduate certificate in Qualitative Inquiry from the University of Georgia in 2004. Her research interests include: anti-Black racism and race pedagogy; equity and social justice in adult education; and mentoring in doctoral education. Dr. Merriweather is dedicated to the project of communalism, and is guided by the spirits of Sankofa and Ubuntu that provide the ideological culturally informed grounding for the work in which she engages.

Joshua D. Hawley is Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. He is also Associate Director for the Center of Human Resource Research and Director of the Ohio Education Research Center. He received his Ed.D. and Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and M.A. and B.A. in History and Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.