Jayne Downey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT where she serves as the Director of the Center for Research on Rural Education.

Dr. Amy Price Azano is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Tech. Her scholarship focuses on rural education, critical pedagogies of place, and special populations in rural schools.

Dr. Catharine Biddle is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Maine. Her scholarship focuses on how rural schools and communities are responding to 21st century social and economic change and how youth and community members organize and lead rural educational change.

Devon Brenner is Professor of teacher education in the College of Education at Mississippi State University in Starkville Mississippi and coordinates education initiatives in the MSU Office of Research and Economic Development. Brenner is currently co-editor of The Rural Educator, journal of the National Rural Education Association.

Hernán Cuervo is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Deputy Director of the Youth Research Centre, at The University of Melbourne.

Natalie Downes is a researcher in the Rural Education and Communities research group at the University of Canberra. She also works with the University of Canberra Widening Participation unit.

Melyssa Fuqua has a PhD from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is also the co-founder of the Rural Education Research Student Network.

Jerry Johnson is the Lydia E. Skeen Endowed Professor in Education and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at Kansas State University. His department includes graduate programs in both K-12 educational leadership and adult education, including programs that are offered on-site in rural communities throughout the state.

Dr. Hobart Harmon is a leading expert on public education in rural America and Leader of Strategic Advancement at Intermediate Unit 8 in Altoona, PA. Harmon holds a courtesy appointment as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Educational Leadership at Kansas State University.

Associate Professor Melissa Langdon is an academic and media commentator on enabling education, women at work, and social innovation.

Jesse Longhurst is an Assistant Professor of Education in the School of Education at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. She coordinates the Master of Arts in Teaching program for secondary education and teaches in the Master of Arts and Sciences in Education program. 

Annette is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia. She has taught both Practitioner Inquiry and Inclusive Education in the Master of Teaching programme at the University of South Australia, both online to external students and face to face on campus.