Michael Bennett is private consultant with extensive experience as a principle investigator and project manager in a wide range of areas, including cognitive aids for analysis and counterdeception. Mr. Bennett conceived and managed an NRO Director's Innovation Study on this topic while working for High Performance Technologies, Inc. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut. Ed Waltz is technical director of intelligence systems at General Dynamics. He is also the author of Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise and Information Warfare: Principles and Operations, and the co-author of Multisensor Data… Fusion. Mr. Waltz received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Case Institute of Technology and M.S. in computer information and control engineering from the University of Michigan.
Vanessa D. Dickerson is a professor of English at DePauw University and the author of Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural.
Daphne Brooks is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University, where she teaches courses on African-American literature and culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture.
Dorri Beam is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.