Dinur Blum earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside. In addition to mass shootings, he researches the academic obstacles student-athletes face and the messages they receive about sports and school from their coaches, teammates, and families. He co-hosts the Learning Made Easier podcast with Dr. Adam G. Sanford, designed to help college students and instructors to help with effective learning and teaching. He currently teaches at California State University, Los Angeles. When he is not working on research or teaching, Dr. Blum is an avid sports photographer. Christian González Jaworski is a researcher and PhD candidate at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests are crime, drug addiction, opiates and rural sociology. He and Dinur have been writing on Mass Shootings since 2012. Formerly, he taught at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. He lives in New England with his wife.