Nolan Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Project Censored National Judge, author, and lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Higdon's areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon's work is available at Substack (https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020) and Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People (2022). Higdon is a regular source of expertise for CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Allison Butler is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is also Co-Director of the Mass Media Literacy non-profit organization, where she develops and runs training programs for teachers covering critical media literacy in K-12 schools, Vice President on the Board of the Media Freedom Foundation, and a spokesperson for Project Censored. Her research focuses on critical media literacy and critiques of surveillance technologies in education. She is the author of Educating Media Literacy: The Need for Teacher Education in Critical Media Literacy (2020), and co-author of Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning: Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers (2021) and The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People (2022).
