Marcus Rashford MBE is Manchester United's iconic number 10 and an England International soccer player. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Marcus teamed up with the food distribution charity FareShare to cover the free school meal deficit for vulnerable children across the UK, raising more than twenty million pounds. Marcus successfully lobbied the British Government to u-turn policy around the free food voucher program—a campaign that has been deemed the quickest turnaround of government policy in the history of British politics—so that 1.3 million vulnerable children continued to have access to food while schools were closed during the pandemic. Marcus is also the author of You Are a Champion: How to Be the Best You Can Be and Heroes: How to Turn Inspiration Into Action. In October 2020, he was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Abiola Bello is a Nigerian-British children's and YA author who was born and raised in London. She is an advocate for diversity in books for young people. Abiola is the author of the award-winning fantasy series Emily Knight, Love in Winter Wonderland, Only for the Holidays, and The Love Dare. She also contributed to The Very Merry Murder Club. In 2018, Abiola was the recipient of the 2018 London Book Fair Trailblazer Award, and in 2023, she won the Black British Business Award for Arts and Media. She is the co-founder of Hashtag Press, Hashtag BLAK and The Diverse Book Awards.

Marta Kissi studied BA Illustration & Animation at Kingston University and MA Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. Her favourite part of being an illustrator is bringing stories to life by designing charming characters and the wonderful worlds they live in. She shares a studio with her husband James.