John
John is an MD student and 21st Century Scholar at UPenn. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Politics and History (Phi Beta Kappa), and earned his premed postbacc at Goucher College in Baltimore.
Alice
Alice holds a BA in Neuroscience (Princeton), worked at a non-profit preschool for children with developmental delays, and conducted research at Boston Children's Hospital. She is now an MD student at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Helena
Helena studied at Columbia and NYU. She has served as a Contributing Editor and Senior Contributor at The New Inquiry, and her work has been excerpted or cited in The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Times, among others.