Peter Taylor is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he directs the Graduate Programs in Critical and Creative Thinking and Science in a Changing World. His research and writing links innovation in teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration with studies of the complexity of environmental and health sciences in their social context. This combination is evident in his 2005 book, Unruly Complexity: Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement (U. Chicago Press).

Jeremy Szteiter is the assistant director of the Critical and Creative Thinking program. His work centers around community-based and adult education and has involved managing, developing, and teaching programs to lifelong learners, with an emphasis on a learning process that involves the teaching of others what has been learned and supporting the growth of individuals to become teachers of what they know.