Vinita is a journalist, educator and media innovator. She's reported internationally from places like New York, Mumbai and Johannesburg and has worked in both big and community media, including: the New York Times Magazine, Savoy, VIBE, the Village Voice and WBAI and CKLN Radio. She's a leader and a mentor both in the newsroom and the classroom and has taught journalism at TMU's School of Journalism, the National University of Rwanda and the Asian American Writer's Workshop in NYC.

Christopher Heaney is an Assistant Professor of History at Penn State and a writer, with bylines in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the New York Times. He researches and teaches on the history and culture of the Andes, Indigenous knowledges, science, museums, and empire. His first book, Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), was a history of the media discovery of Machu Picchu, and the fight that ensued between Yale University and Peru over the ownership of Machu Picchu's tombs. It was used by Peruvian officials and Yale alumni to assist in that collection's return.