H. Samy Alim is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Founding Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language (2010). He is co-editor of Raciolinguistics (OUP 2016), co-author of Articulate While Black (OUP 2012), and author of Roc the Mic Right (2006) and You Know My Steez (2004).
Angela Reyes is Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), and Doctoral Faculty in the Program in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is author of Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth: The Other Asian (2007), co-editor of Beyond Yellow English (OUP 2009), and co-author of Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event (2015).
Paul V. Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past
President of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2013-15) and the editor of Regimes of Language (2000) and Telling Stories in the Face of Danger (2012), co-editor of Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (OUP 1998), and author of Language, History, and Identity (1993).