Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Eileen Moyer is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Anthropology of Ecology, Health and Climate Change at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science (AISSR)

Andries Bezuidenhout is an academic, poet, musician and artist. He is professor of development studies at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

Memory Reid is an environmental scientist, with an interest in climate change adaptation, energy transitions and renewable energy, resource governance, food security and sustainable livelihoods. Currently, a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Global Change Institute.

Nirvana Pillay is an independent consultant and researcher in public health and development and a visiting researcher at the Wits School of Public Health.

Marius Marais is a lecturer at the University of Limpopo. His research focuses on the effect of land tenure systems on spontaneous economic, land and township development processes in peri-urban regions, especially in the former homelands of South Africa.

Vijay Makanjee is a development practitioner and activist supporting and working with a range of not profit organisations in the Eastern Cape.

Sandra Zaroufis is an Anthropology PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam and holds a Master of Landscape from the University of Cape Town.

Lucy Pearl Khofi is an award-winning activist and a Joint PhD Candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand (Public Health) and the University of Amsterdam (Anthropology).

Amanda Mokoena is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. She holds a Master of Philosophy in African Studies (with distinction) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Dineo Mtetwa is PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Emily Ragus was the recipient of the Sir John Monash scholarship where she is pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam.