Jessa Lingel is a postdoctoral research fellow at Microsoft Research New England, working with the Social Media Collective.  She received her PhD in communication and information from Rutgers University.  She has an MLIS from Pratt Institute and an MA from New York University.  Her research interests include information inequalities and technological distributions of power.  A California transplant to the East Coast, Jessa is currently located in Boston.

Jen Jack Gieseking is a cultural geographer and environmental psychologist engaged in research on co-productions of space and identity in digital and material environments, with a focus on sexual and gender identities. S/he pays special attention to how such productions support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice. Jack is working on her first book, Queer New York: Constellating Geographies of Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s In/Justice in New York City, 1983-2008. Jack is New Media & Data Visualization Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin College, and holds a Ph.D. in environmental psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is co-editor of The People, Place, and Space Reader, with William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert which is forthcoming from Routledge in spring 2014.