Nicolas Nhalungo is a Mozambican writer and researcher who focuses on business, culture, fashion, and history. As a third-culture kid, his interaction with distinctive cultures has contributed to his understanding of the world at large. As an aspiring pop culture anthropologist, he aims to help brands make sense of the evolving cultural zeitgeist. He has written for AMAKA, Vogue India, Industrie Africa, OkayAfrica, and more, and has been featured in VICE, Variety, and The Fashion and Race Database. He's a Council for International African Fashion Education fellow and an African Arguments fellow.

Craig Haslop is a senior lecturer in media at the University of Liverpool. His research interests lie in how masculinity among young men is changing, particularly the role of misogyny and homophobia in the policing of hetero-masculinity, and the affordances and limitations offered to young people in their gendered identity-making practices online.

Dr Gabriel Cruz is a lecturer in the communications studies department at the University of North Carolina, undertaking research focused on intersectional critical race analysis of popular culture and White nationalist rhetoric. His work appears in multiple books and journals, as well as his pop-culture podcast Office Hours With Dr. C.

Seasoned writer Bertrand Cooper has had work published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and numerous other magazines. He’s spoken on MSNBC, NPR, and Slate, as well as visiting colleges, high schools, and socially minded companies like Code.Org, discussing Black America, poverty, education, and pop culture.

Tom Novak is a senior behavioral analyst at Canvas8. After completing his second master's degree in cultural sociology at LSE, he was drawn to cultural insight. Tom has conducted qualitative and ethnographic research from the plazas of Santiago to Coventry's suburbs. In his spare time, he can be seen rowing down the Thames or world-building around feminist science fiction.