Scott Gabriel Knowles is Endowed Chair Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). He is also founding coeditor of the Journal of Disaster Studies.
Alexa S. Dietrich is an interdisciplinary environmental health scientist, trained in anthropology and epidemiology. She is the author of The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico (NYU Press), which won the Julian Steward Award for the best book in environmental anthropology in 2015.
Rodrigo Ugarte is Editor at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), currently overseeing the Just Tech program’s online platform. He edited an earlier version of this collection of pieces, which were published in the SSRC’s online publication Items: Insights from the Social Sciences.
Tyesha Maddox is Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies at Fordham University.