Amy Bruckman is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She and her students in the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) research group do research on online communities and education. Amy received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab's Epistemology and Learning group in 1997, and her AB in Physics from Harvard in 1987.

Betsy James DiSalvo is a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include informal learning, digital gaming, and art & technology. DiSalvo came to Georgia Tech from the University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center where, as a research associate, she developed informal learning programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that targeted sup-populations underrepresented in STEM.

Andrea Forte is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in human-centered computing at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. Her current research focuses on written communities of discourse and social contexts for learning through writing. Andrea holds an MLIS from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (now School of Information) at University of Texas at Austin and a BA in foreign language and literature with a minor in philosophy from Western Michigan University.

Kurt Luther is a Ph.D. student in human-centered computing at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. His research interests lie at the intersection of online community design and digital media production. Kurt's current work investigates how online communities can be designed to support new forms of creative collaboration. He received his BS in computer graphics technology with minors in art history and information technology from Purdue University in 2006.