Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley where she also directs the doctoral program in critical studies of medicine, science and the body. She is the Director of "Organs Watch", a medical human rights research and documentation project housed at UC Berkeley.

Loic Wacquant is Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européene du collège de France and a Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Earl Warren Legal Institute, University of California at Berkeley.