Austin Crane holds a PhD in Geography at the University of Washington and is an instructor in the department of geography at the University of South Carolina. He is a broadly trained human geographer, with research interests including political geography, migration and borders, and poverty and inequality. Michael Mewborne is the director of the South Carolina Geographic Alliance. He earned his Master of Arts in Teaching at the University of South Carolina and later taught World Geography and Advanced Placement Human Geography at Chapin High School in Chapin, South Carolina, and River Bluff High School in Lexington, South Carolina. Jory Fleming is a climate scientist and educator. He is a Rhodes Scholar and Truman Scholar, holding an MPhil in environmental change and management from the University of Oxford (Worcester College), an MBA from the Quantic School of Business & Technology, and a BS in geography and marine science from the University of South Carolina.