Eurydice Bauer is Professor, the John E. Swearingen Chair of Education, and the Director of the Center of Bilingualism Matters at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Lenny Sánchez is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education and Co-Director of the Center of Bilingualism Matters at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Yang Wang is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education and Co-Director of the Center of Bilingualism Matters at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Andrea Vaughan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Literacy, where she studies community-based literacy learning and teaching.