Florence Pasche Guignard completed her Ph.D. in the study of religions at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). In 2012, she joined the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto to complete her postdoctoral research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and entitled “Natural Parenting in the Digital Age. At the Confluence of Mothering, Religion, Environmentalism, and Technology.” Her interdisciplinary research engages issues at the intersection of religion, ritual, gender, embodiment, media and material culture.

Dr. Tanya M. Cassidy is International Convener for the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health (SNPCH) at Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland. She is also a Fulbright-HRB (Irish Health Research Board) Health Impact scholar, an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Award (MSCA) fellow, a Cochrane Fellow, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). She is the author of several publications including What’s Cooking Mom: Narratives about food and families (Demeter, 2015) and Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways From Maternal Perspectives (Demeter, 2016).