Keya Maitra is professor of philosophy and the Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities (2018-2022) at University of North Carolina Asheville. She was a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Senior Research Award (India) in 2015. Her research and teaching focus is in philosophy of mind, cross-cultural philosophy, transnational feminist philosophy, and epistemology of mindfulness.
Jennifer McWeeny is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a past recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar National Research Award (France). Her research and teaching interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and decolonial theory. She is Editor in Chief of Simone de Beauvoir Studies.