Cecilia identifies as a community-based creator, independent researcher, business strategist, and expert in marketing and branding. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication: Marketing and PR and received an MBA specialising in Branding from London.

Education has always been a passion for Cecilia. Specifically, she’s interested in the relationship between industries and fandom, particularly fan co-creation and community building. Cecilia is one of the co-founders of Bangtan Scholars and is currently serving as the team lead. Cecilia has been an ARMY since 2015. When not involved in the BTS fandom, she is a marketing and growth consultant.

Courtney is a writer/editor with special interests in BTS studies, fan studies, ethics, and Korean history and culture. She's been an active member of ARMY since 2015. She received her BA in History (East Asia) and her MA in English before completing a Korean language program.

As a life-long learner, she continues to explore new topics and hopes to continue contributing to the growing body of research on BTS. Her work has been published in the Asia Marketing Journal, I Am ARMY: It’s Time To Begin, and PopCrush, among others. You can find her on The BTS Effect, where she currently posts content related to BTS, the Bangtan Universe, and ARMY.

Rebecca (also known as Bex) is an ABD Theatre/Fine Arts PhD student at Texas Tech University focusing on the interdisciplinary nature of theatre and adaptations to the stage.  She has a BFA & MA in Theatre with a focus on directing, but has spent many years working in the film industry as well.  Her dissertation focuses on the spirit of adaptations as they transfer from the page and screen to the stage.

Bex is currently lost in a discord server known as Bangtan Academy, a study group that “got a bit bigger than planned” and is now a well-populated study school full of Korean Language students.  Normally she’s a university instructor of culture and performance.

If you want the read some of her writing, you can find a chapter on the adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Spamalot in Python Beyond Python; Critical Engagements with Culture. Before the pandemic she was seen out and about in London with other Bangtan Scholars at the BTS Conference in 2020, presenting on BTS as not just artists but Fine Artists.

Nicole is a sociology PhD student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas studying the culture and social structures of BTS ARMY. She has a bachelor's in communication studies and a master's in journalism in media studies. As part of her master's thesis in 2016, she studied the social network structure of the One Direction fandom.

Nicole is currently doing her dissertation, while working on a range of research projects with ARMY collaborators focused on themes such as mis/disinformation, mental health, fandom roles, & more. Outside of academics, Nicole has worked in communications & PR for the last decade. She has been an ARMY since 2018.