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Longo is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the NJIT. She earned a PhD in rhetoric and communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She also has master's and bachelor's degrees in English from California State University. Longo joins NJIT from the University of Minnesota, where she taught technical and professional communication and directed the master's and certificate programs in scientific and technical communication.uses cultural studies to investigate technical communication practices within particular cultural contexts, mediated by technological devices. She understands technical communication as an everyday practice working to stabilize a power/knowledge system. This research accounts for technical communicators' language choices, illuminating how technical language circulates as currency, assigning value to information within a scientific knowledge economy.

Yvan Yenda Ilunga is a graduate student at the University of Cape Town, where he will earn his master's degree this year. His current research explores issues of sustainable development, mining, and food security in the Great Lakes Region of the DR Congo. Yenda Ilunga has worked as a research intern at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, which was established in 2000 in the aftermath of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Institute helps to build fair, democratic and inclusive societies in Africa through carefully selected engagements and interventions based on dialogue, education, oral history, memory, culture, and the arts. Yenda Ilunga earned a Bachelor of Social Science degree with honors in International Relations from the University of Lubumbashi in the DR Congo, and a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Development Studies from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.