Darin Payne is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi. As a specialist in Composition and Rhetoric, he teaches at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate program and publishes broadly on rhetoric, writing, technology, and education. 

Soichi Kozai has received a Ph.D. in linguistics from University of Hawaii, following an M.Ed. from Columbia University and an M.A. from NYU. He is an assistant professor, teaching at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. His current interest is focused on the utterances of gay-men in Japan. He employs notions of syntax, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to analyze the data. 

She is  a bachelor student, majoring in history, from Hangzhou Normal University, China. She is  interested in the history of women, gender and food in China.

Having graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in International Relations from King’s College London, Jood is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University (China), specializing in Chinese Foreign Policy. Passionate about cross-cultural relations and cultural diplomacy, she is focusing her research on the importance of culture in international relations.

Khashikha Vaddiraj, a Grade 10 student at Oakridge International School, Hyderabad, founded the Avadhi Foundation. Aspiring to study BSc Business Management at London Business School, she’s a social worker, writer, and designer. Author of “Red Threads” and director of “Samraksha,” she has won National Awards for Excellence in Social Innovation Leadership and Development of Women and Children.

Aathira A S, a PhD research scholar at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, is pursuing her doctorate under the guidance of Dr. Poongodi, Assistant Professor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology. Her area of research is medical humanities with a focus on Body Studies. Her areas of interest include Trauma Studies, Memory Studies and Medical Humanities. She recently published a paper titled Memory as Trauma in Anees Salim’s The Blind Lady’s Descendants in IPBS: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science by Springer Publications and listed in the Science Citation Index.