Dipti Desai is a Professor of Art and Art Education in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University where she teaches courses on socially engaged art practices and its politics, critical pedagogy, and artistic activism as radical research. Her praxis-based pedagogy requires students to engage directly with communities and public spaces to envision and enact art activist projects. She is the author of four books and numerous articles on the intersection between art, social justice, and pedagogy.

Stephen Duncombe is a Professor of Media and Culture in the Gallatin and Steinhardt Schools of New York University, where he teaches the history and politics of media and culture. He is the author and editor of ten books on the intersection of culture and politics, and the cofounder of The Center for Artistic Activism, a training and research organization dedicated to helping activists create more like artists and artists strategize more like activists.