Quenby Hoffman Aoki is an Associate Lecturer at Seikei University's Institute of International Studies. She has taught at universities in the Tokyo area for nearly 20 years. Her research interests include learner and teacher identity, gender and social justice issues in the language classroom, literature, and writing. She is Coordinator of the JALT Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) SIG and a Member-at-Large of CUE SIG.

Christopher Modell is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the Midwestern United States. He has been teaching English professionally for over 17 years, and first became interested in foreign language and culture at age 14, when he began studying French. He has worked in France, China, and the United States, and is currently Associate Lecturer at Seikei University in Tokyo, Japan. His publications include articles on teaching metaphor, using songs in the ESL classroom, and student goal setting. His research interests include teaching metaphor, the effect of Emergency Remote Teaching on student motivation, and student self-access centers.