- Claudia Șerbănuță, Director of the National Library of Romania and Doctoral candidate at GSLIS
- Timothy Wedig, Political Science, University of Illinois
- Anita Say Chan, Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois
- Yan Li, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Olena Zhylinkova, Faculty of Law, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
- Nama Budhathoki, Executive Director, Kathmandu Living Labs, Nepal
- Linda Herrera, Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, UI
- Markus Schultz, Sociology, UI