Ed Galindo (Yaqui) is associate director for education and diversity at the NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium and former faculty member at the University of Idaho and affiliate faculty at Idaho State University and Utah State University. During his career as a high school science teacher, he was twice named National Indian Teacher of the Year by the National Indian School Board Association.

Lori Lambert (Abenaki/Mi'kmaq) is a community research associate with Caribou Crossing Educational Research and author of Research for Indigenous Survival: Indigenous Research Methodologies in the Behavioral Sciences.