Ilana Redstone is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has a joint Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Ilana is the founder of Diverse Perspectives Consulting, the co-author (with John Villasenor) of “Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education,” a Faculty Fellow at Heterodox Academy, and the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes” video series, based on her course by the same name

Chris Bail is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. A Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellow, he studies political tribalism, extremism, and social psychology using data from social media and tools from the emerging field of computational social science. His latest book is “Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing."

Lindsay Hoffman is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Delaware. Her research examines how citizens use technology to become engaged with politics and their communities. Hoffman’s research is theoretically grounded in political communication, mass communication, and public opinion. Her research also examines the components of mediated messages that encourage individuals to participate in — or distance themselves from — political activities such as voting, news viewing, or simply expressing opinion. Hoffman holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, and is the Associate Director of UD’s Center for Political Communication. She is also the Director of the annual National Agenda Speaker and Film Series. She teaches courses in political communication, politics and technology, media effects, and research methods.