John J. Farrell is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College. He earned his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in 1964 and began working at F&M in Lancaster, PA, the next year. In 2021, Farrell was honored by his undergraduate alma mater as a recipient of the Baldwin Wallace Alumni Merit Award, the highest honor conferred upon a grade by the university.

Gail Webster received her B.S. in secondary chemistry education from Virginia Commonwealth University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in analytical chemistry from North Carolina State University. She taught chemistry for twenty-five years at both the high school and college levels. Always an advocate of student-centered learning, she incorporated POGIL pedagogy in her classes in 2004 and then became active within the POGIL community. She is currently a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S.

Ashley Mahoney is the Associate Chair and Professor of Chemistry at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN where she has taught for 17 years. She began using POGIL pedagogy in the Fall of 2002. She has helped facilitate over 25 workshops across the country in addition to being the POGIL regional coordinator for the North Central Region. Mahoney has co-authored a collection of POGIL activities for the GOB (allied health) classroom available through Wiley. She has also assembled a national consortium of faculty to write inquiry laboratories for introductory chemistry courses.

Michael P. Garoutte received his B.S. in Chemistry from Missouri Southern State College in 1989, and his Ph. D. from the University of Kansas in 1995. His doctoral work was done under the supervision of Richard Schowen, and involved mechanistic studies of proton transfer in serine proteases. After a year teaching at Mercer University and a year at the University of Central Oklahoma, Garoutte took a position at his alma mater (now known as MSSU) in 1997.

Dr. Suzanne Ruder is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Ruder earned a B.A. in chemistry from the College of St. Benedict, a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Washington State University, and completed a post-doctoral position at Brown University. Her research focuses on training teaching assistants, designing instructional materials and developing methods to assess process skills in the active learning classroom. Dr. Ruder teaches organic chemistry at VCU using active learning methods in large classes (up to 250 students).

Rick Moog received an A.B. in chemistry from Williams College and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Stanford University. He is currently Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College and the Executive Director of The POGIL Project. He is a proud recipient of the 2016 George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education from the American Chemical Society. Rick has been using a guided inquiry approach to teaching and chemistry since 1994, and is the coauthor of POGIL materials for general chemistry and physical chemistry.

Alex Grushow is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Sean Garrett-Roe received his B.S in chemistry from Princeton University (1999) and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2005). From 2006 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Zurich with Prof. Peter Hamm, where he developed three-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (3D-IR) of hydrogen bonding in water. Sean joined the chemistry department of the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor in 2011 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2018.