SHERE HITE (1942-2020) was an American-born German sex educator, writer, model, and feminist who authored such works as The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality. She was director of the National Organization for Women's Feminist Sexuality Project, vice president of the International Women Writers Association, and lecturer at New York University, Harvard University, McGill University, Columbia University, and Cambridge University.

LIZ CANNER is a media artist and independent filmmaker best known for her documentary Orgasm Inc.:The Strange Science of Female Pleasure (2009). Her latest project, Symphony of a City, is a documentary on community building and the housing crisis. In 2002, she was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership fellowship for creating innovative media projects that strengthen democracy. Her work has been internationally broadcasted and screened at festivals, including the New York Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, as well as at museums and galleries, including Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the California Museum of Photography.