Allison Leich Hilbun, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in the Biological Sciences department at Vanderbilt University. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Science in 2016 studying the application of chaos theory to biological signal analysis. She teaches Statistical Methods for Biology, Cell Biology Lab, and Collective Intelligence. She is also a registered mental health counselor intern and enjoys both teaching and working in therapy. Further, she is a former gymnast and still enjoys flipping in her free time.

Lauren Mitchell is a researcher and direct care practitioner with a current appointment as a Senior Lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Medicine, Health and Society and through the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Certificate of Professional Achievement Program, after having served at the Burnett School of Medicine as their Director of Narrative Medicine. She is the founder of The Doula Project, the United States' first formalized full-spectrum doula program and is the author of the book The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (Feminist Press 2016).  Her first academic book project, Alienating Aesthetics: Performance Art and the Medical Imagination, contends with the ethics of visual and performance culture, narrative, medical history, and the limitations of our current societal definition of empathy.  She has recently published in Configurations, Departures in Critical Qualitative Interventions, and The Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. She is also pursuing a Masters in Social Work at the University of Tennessee at this time, where she serves in the VUMC Inpatient Psychiatry Unit