Lucía Zapata-Cardona is a full professor at the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. Her interests are in teacher education, statistics education and critical data science. She is currently working on the development of data science teaching materials that help citizens understand and transform critical social issues.

Travis Weiland is the Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. My interests are at the intersection of teacher education, statistics education, data science education, and critical education. Currently much of my work is focused on studying how mathematics teachers develop critical statistical literacies for doing and teaching data investigation concepts and practices.

Takashi Kawakami is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the Cooperative Faculty of Education, Utsunomiya University, Japan. His research interests include mathematical modelling, statistics and data science education, STE(A)M education, and mathematics teachers’ professional learning. His current primary focus is exploring the intersection of mathematical modelling and statistics/data science education using conceptual and empirical approaches.

Rolf Biehler is a professor emeritus for didactics of mathematics at Paderborn University, Germany. His research encompasses probability, statistics, and data science education, with a focus on integrating digital tools into learning processes. He co-directs the “Data Science and Big Data at School” project (www.prodabi.de/en), developing curricula and professional development courses for teachers to introduce data exploration and data-based machine learning at various educational levels.

Carolina Franco is a principal statistician at NORC at the University of Chicago. She conducts research and consulting on the modeling of survey data and related topics and is widely recognized for her expertise in small area estimation (SAE). Before joining NORC, Carolina spent several years working at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (CSRM). Carolina is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and holds several leadership appointments in the statistics community.