Erica Rosenfeld Halverson is an associate professor of digital media and literacy in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work focuses on what it means to learn in and through the arts across a range of contexts, including out-of-school arts organizations, museums, libraries, and arts-based classrooms. In 2010 she received the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies for her research on how filmmaking serves as a vehicle for positive identity development and sophisticated literacy learning for young people who are disaffiliated from school. Halverson codirects with Kimberly Sheridan the Learning in the Making research lab, where they are currently focused on what and how young people learn through making and how new technologies can be leveraged for more inspired and engaged making processes.

Kimberly M. Sheridan is an associate professor holding a joint appointment in the College of Education and Human Development and the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University. She studies learning at the intersections of art, science, and new technologies with a particular focus on the sociocultural contexts of learning. She is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including from the National Science, Fulbright, and Spencer foundations. Sheridan co-directs with Erica Rosenfeld Halverson the Learning in the Making research lab, where they are currently focused on what and how young people learn through making and how new technologies can be leveraged for more inspired and engaged making processes.