Holly Hansen-Thomas is vice provost of research, innovation, and corporate engagement, and professor of ESL and bilingual education at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, USA. A three-time Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Hansen-Thomas has dedicated her academic scholarship to second language educational issues, with more than 85 peer-reviewed publications, and more than 100 peer-reviewed conference presentations.

MarÍa-Elena GÓmez-Parra is an interdisciplinary researcher and professor of bilingual and intercultural education in the Faculty of Education at the University of CÓrdoba, Spain. Her key research areas include intercultural education, bilingual education, and early second language acquisition.

Barbara Muszynska, a Fulbright Senior Award scholar, works as an assistant professor at the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland. Her research and teaching focus on developing new forms of evidence-based cross-curricular approaches to language teaching and learning.