Harsha Kathard is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and research director of the Inclusive Practices Africa Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. She is speech-language therapist and audiologist with a research focus on communication challenges and supports in marginalised communities, innovations in service delivery, workforce, professions and professionalisation, disability inclusion in health, education and economies, decoloniality, curriculum change.

Mershen Pillay, SLT/A, currently at Massey University, also holds an honorary position at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Mershen developed EPIC with his long-time academic partner, Harsha Kathard as part of their work to decolonise professional education, research and practice.  Some of his recent work is about connecting persons with disabilities to their food sovereignty or music street traders to hearing and communication in the informal sector. Mershen uses complexity theory alongside feminist_, queer_, race/whiteness_, decolonial and critical disability studies

Kristen Abrahams is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. She is speech-language pathologist with a special interest in understanding communication in marginalised communities, social justice and inclusion, curriculum change and decoloniality. She recently completed her postdoctoral fellowship which focused on understanding emerging clinical practices in speech-language pathology and audiology which seek to create more equitable, contextually relevant practices.