Dr Bonnie Urciuoli, professor emerita of anthropology at Hamilton College, has published on race/class ideologies of Spanish and English and the neoliberal construction and marketing of studenthood and diversity in U.S. higher education. Her books include Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class (1996) and Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life (2022).

Dr Katy Highet is a Lecturer in English Language & TESOL at the University of the West of Scotland. She was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL Institute of Education, where she also completed her PhD. Her research adopts a critical sociolinguistic approach to language and political economy, (de)coloniality, race, class and caste in the context of English Language Teaching in India and the UK.

Jacqueline Urla is professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Urla began ethnographic research on language ideology and cultural activism in the Basque Country in the nineteen eighties and has written about language standardization, language statistics, and the ethical and political aspects of writing as a scholar about language revitalization. She is the author of Reclaiming Basque: Language, Nation and Cultural Activism (University of Nevada Press 2012).