Joe Biel is a self-made publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder/manager of Microcosm Publishing and cofounder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He tours with his films on the Dinner and Bikes program and has been featured in Time, Publishers Weekly, Utne Reader, Portland Mercury, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Readymade, Punk Planet, Profane Existence, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum; Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior; The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting; Beyond the Music; Bamboozled; Bipedal, By Pedal; and more. He is the director of the documentaries Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland; If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk; Of Dice & Men; $100 & a T-Shirt; and the Groundswell film series. The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy described Biel as not trained in pedagogy. His work can be found at JoeBiel.net.

Paul Michael Garcia, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and former company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, received his classical training in theater from Southern Oregon University, where he worked as an actor, director, and designer.