Adelheid Mers is an artist who works through Performative Diagrammatics, a practice that develops facilitation instruments deployed in laboratory settings at exhibitions, convenings or retreats. Publications include contributions to Performance Research, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and Global Performance Studies, and an edited issue of CSPA Quarterly. Mers is professor and chair of the department of Arts Administration and Policy and Interim Chair of the Department of Art Therapy and Counseling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently co-leads the Working Group Performance & Pedagogy at PSi and the Special Interest Group Facilitating as Creative Practice at SAR.

Leigh Anne Howard, a co-leader of the PSi Working Group for Performance and Pedagogy, studies and teaches critical performance pedagogy, as well as the performance of personal and social identity. Her scholarship has appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, the American Behavioral Scientist, and the Journal of Intercultural Communication (formerly the World Communication Journal). Her most recent publications are Home and Away: Lived Experience in Performative Narratives and Performativity, Cultural Construction and the Graphic Narrative, which she co-edited with Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw (Routledge, 2020). She is Professor of Communication Studies and Academic Affairs Engagement Coordinator at the University of Southern Indiana.