Hinda Mandell researches news coverage of scandal, focusing in particular on the gender and religious dimensions of these news events. Her dissertation examined media construction of wives at the center of political sex scandals. She comes to academic research after writing for the popular press, including both religious and nonsectarian publications. A recipient of international fellowships, including the American Council on Germany's McCloy Journalism Fellowship and the Museum of Jewish Heritage's Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship, Mandell has reported from Germany, Poland, China, Dublin and Jerusalem. She is a correspondent for the Boston Globe, where she writes on suburban life and religious affairs. She was one of the newspaper's correspondents who reported on Bernie Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Hinda also writes and blogs for the Forward newspaper. Hinda is the former editor in chief of Boston's Jewish Advocate, where she directed news coverage of religious affairs and their cultural implications. She is a former features editor at the Bennington Banner in Vermont. Hinda began her reporting career at the North Adams Transcript in Massachusetts, where she covered the cops and courts beat.

For over two decades, Wade Robison has served as RIT's Ezra A. Hale Professor in Applied Ethics, developing research and education programs that examine the ethical considerations involved in health care, politics and government, technology development and education. Through the professorship he also directs the annual Hale Ethics Lecture Series, which brings leading philosophers and ethicists to campus to discuss issues ranging from racism to the Iraq War to new advances in biotechnology.

Robison has also conducted numerous research projects in sustainability ethics, the philosophy of technology and ethics in government and is the author or editor of eight books, including Health Care Reform: Ethics and Politics released in 2006.

Prior to joining RIT, Robison served as the chair of the Department of Philosophy at Kalamazoo College. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin.