Janet M. Cramer , Ph.D., is a communication scholar specializing in media studies, sociology of media, food communication, history, gender studies, and intersectional studies. Her research publications include an examination of ideologies of womanhood in the 19 ^th century press, the construction of race and class in various forms of media, the cultural meanings of food, and a history of media focusing on the cultural and intellectual traditions that guided mass media development in the United States, titled Media/History/Society: A Cultural History of U.S. Media (2009).

Carlnita P. Greene , Ph.D., is the Dean of Behavioral, Social Sciences & Global Learning at Bunker Hill Community College. She is the author of Gourmands & Gluttons: The Rhetoric of Food Excess (2015) and editor of Foodscapes: Food, Space, and Place in a Global Society (2019). She has previously published on subjects as diverse as identity and social style and the rhetoric of popular culture.

Lynn M. Walters , Ph.D., Licensed Nutritionist (NM), is the founder of Cooking with Kids, Inc., an award-winning non-profit that educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods: cookingwithkids.org. Her interests focus on the behavioral effects of experiential learning with food; family, peer, and environmental influences on cooking and food choice; and the connections between gardening and health.