Bethe A. Scalettar is Professor in the Department of Physics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her previous faculty positions have been at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of California, San Francisco. She has a strong background in interdisciplinary research and pedagogical interests that span the disciplines of biology and physics. James R. Abney has a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College. He is a shareholder at the firm Kolisch Hartwell P.C. He has co-authored multiple research articles, and was previously a fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Research Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.