London Vallery is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Cambridge working in the History and Philosophy of Science with a focus in Aerospace Engineering. Vallery completed her bachelor's degree at Harvard University in the History of Science. She has a research focus in the international development of aerospace engineering as it relates to astrosociology, indigenous representation, and environmental rights. Dan Bon Lalinn was produced within Vallery's ongoing Upward Expansion collection which covers the ways in which indigenous communities around the world utilize the stars and sky as a natural resource.