Kate C. Tilleczek is a grandmother, educator, and Canada Research Chair in Youth, Education & Global Good at York University. She is full professor and director of the Young Lives Research Laboratory, which she founded in 2009 as a unique intergenerational space within and beyond the university to understand, investigate, support and amplify work with/by/for young people and their various communities as they navigate new challenges to their education and wellbeing (such as intersecting systemic injustices, problems of digital technology and ecological degradation). Her newest project, Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing, builds upon lessons learned in this book as well as previous projects and writings.

Deborah MacDonald is a new mother and the senior research associate and manager of Dr. Kate C. Tilleczek's Young Lives Research Lab at York University, where she supports Professor Tilleczek's vast body of work and partnerships all around the world. Investigating and learning with and from youth and their communities, she explores interrelated aspects of education, wellbeing, digital technology and planetary health with/by/for young people.