Amna Khalid is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton College, where she specializes in South Asian history. She has written multiple book chapters on the history of public health in nineteenth-century India. Born in Pakistan, Khalid completed her Bachelor's Degree at Lahore University of Management Sciences, continuing on to earn an M.Phil. in Development Studies and a D.Phil. in History from the University of Oxford. Growing up under a series of military dictatorships, Khalid has a strong interest in censorship and free expression. In 2020/21, she served as the inaugural John Stuart Mill Faculty Fellow at Heterodox Academy. A founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance, she currently hosts a podcast called "Banished," which explores threats to free expression in higher education and beyond.

Jeff Snyder is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Carleton College, where his research and teaching focus on past and present educational policy and school reform movements. A Carleton alumnus, Snyder earned an EdM in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a PhD in the History of Education from New York University. Snyder’s work explores questions about race, national identity and the purpose of public education in a diverse, democratic society. He is the author of the 2018 book, Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture and Race in the Age of Jim Crow. Snyder has a keen interest in issues of academic freedom and free expression, especially as they relate to liberal arts education.

Khalid and Snyder--separately and together--speak frequently on academic freedom and free speech at college and universities as well as at professional conferences. Their writing on these topics--solo and co-authored--has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New Republic and the Washington Post, among other publications.