Bianca C. Frazer, PhD is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Chicago. She researches performance aesthetics of non-apparently disabled people, specifically those with any form of diabetes. Her writing appears and is forthcoming in (Un)Doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture, The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order, ArtsPraxis, and Theatre Journal.

Heather R. Walker is the Associate Director of Qualitative Research at the University of Utah Health. She earned her PhD in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to unpack the social and political underpinnings of diabetes in the United States. Walker’s research on diabetes has been featured in journals such as Qualitative Health Research, the Journal of Medical Internet Research Diabetes (JMIR Diabetes), Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology (JDST), The Diabetes Educator, and The Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists Perspectives in Practice Journal. She is a mom of two young children and has a pug named Lancet.