Dr. Nels Popp is an Assistant Professor of Sport Administration in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina. Prior to that, he spent five and a half years as an assistant professor and graduate program coordinator for the sport management program at Illinois State University. Popp earned his doctorate in Sport Administration from the University of Louisville.

Dr. Chad McEvoy is a professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at Northern Illinois University. Previously McEvoy served for three years as professor and graduate program director at Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics in the sport management area. McEvoy also served in a similar capacity at Illinois State University from 2002–2012.

David Lapakko is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, where he taught full-time for 38 years. He has also taught communication-related courses at a variety of colleges in the Twin Cities area, including Hamline University, the University of St. Thomas, Metropolitan State University, St. Olaf College, Carleton College, St. Catherine University, and the University of Minnesota.

Matt (/Matthew/Mateo) Espinoza Watson was born and raised in Fresno, California, where he attended Slater Elementary, Edison-Computech Middle School, Bullard High School, Fresno City College, and CSU Fresno. He then moved to Oakland to study law at UC Berkeley School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctorate in 2003.