Kathleen Mccarthy is a lecturer in Linguistics and director of the Language Acquisition Lab at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research investigates child language development, from infancy to early childhood, with a particular focus on children who grow up in multilingual communities. She works closely with inner-London Early Years services and Primary schools, both for research and public engagement. She is a member of Bilingualism Matters, London Branch.

Mahera Ruby is a Personal Growth and Parenting Coach. She set up Blooming Parenting in 2012 with a vision to reshape and strengthen families and communities. Mahera has been in academia since 2006 and in 2015 completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. Mahera co-authored her first book Interconnecting Worlds: Teacher partnerships for bilingual learning in 2012. Her book Family Jigsaws: Grandmothers as the missing piece shaping bilingual children's learner identities was published in 2017. Mahera is a community organiser. She is currently a Trustee at Markfield Institute of Higher Education and East London Mosque and is involved in many interfaith projects and activities. She is an executive member of Tower Hamlets Citizens.

Lindsay Knight is a freelance digital filmmaker based in London specialising in participatory film projects. Since 2012 he has worked under the Human Stories banner, partnering with young people, vulnerable groups, aficionados and the elderly to project their voices on a wide variety of subjects, including; faith, migration, health, war and perfect fried chicken. Lindsay’s work has won various awards, including a BAFTA, a Promax Gold medal, the Unicef film award and the 2012 Adobe Youth Voices award for best documentary.