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.

Klara Benda is a Ph.D. student in Human Centered Computing. Her research interests are social interactions in online education, online cooperative and collaborative learning, normative aspects of educational technologies and the design of socially aware information systems for online education. Klara has an M.A. in sociology from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary and worked for a long time building online education, designing systems and overviewing content production. Her major contributions are a two-year postgraduate new media course for Magyar Telekom, e-learning courses for Encompass and the creation of the Digital Secondary School for disadvantaged rural adults in Hungary.

Jill Dimond is a Ph.D. student in Human Centered Computing. Her research interests include designing programming environments to empower underrepresented groups, gender studies and technology, and technological design processes. She holds a BSE in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and was an interaction designer in Seattle prior to starting her graduate studies.

Betsy James DiSalvo is a Ph.D. student at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. work is focused on understanding the role that video games play in urban African American male culture. Gitch is a job program for high school students to become game testers and to leverage that experience into computer science learning.

Kurt Luther is a Ph.D. candidate in social 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.