Wendy K. Smith is the Emma Smith Morris Professor of Management and academic director of the Women's Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware's Lerner College of Business & Economics. Her work has won multiple academic awards and been featured in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science.

David Smith is editing Marx's notes on globalization and non-Western cultures for Yale University Press. The author of Marx's Capital Illustrated (Haymarket, 2014, illustrated by Phil Evans), Smith is a professor and department chair at the University of Kansas.