Nelson Maldonado-Torres is President Emeritus of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2008-2013) and Co-chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation with its founder, Mireille Fanon Mendès France. He is also Professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, and the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he also serves as Director of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies and Chair of the Comparative Literature Program. Maldonado-Torres has an ongoing relationship with the Blackhouse Kollective, based in Soweto, South Africa, and he holds the positions of Professor Extraordinarious at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, and Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, also in South Africa. In the U.S., he works with the Curators and Educators for Decolonization Working Group of the Strike MoMA campaign.

Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American artist working at the intersection of problem-solving and troublemaking. His work has appeared in venues worldwide including dOCUMENTA (13), P.S.1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, and the Palais de Tokyo, among others. He has had solo projects and exhibitions with Creative Time, Tate Modern in London, The Wellin Museum of Art, MCA Chicago, SITE Santa Fe, and others. From 2019-2020, a survey of Rakowitz's work traveled from Whitechapel Gallery in London, to Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Torino, to the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. Rakowitz is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Jane Lombard Gallery, New York; and Barbara Wien Galerie, Berlin; Pi Artworks, Istanbul; and Green Art Gallery, Dubai. He lives and works in Chicago.

Kency Cornejo is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico where she teaches Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art Histories. Her teaching, research, and publications focus on contemporary art of Central America and its US-based diaspora, art and activism in Latin/o America, and decolonizing methodologies in art. Some of her publications on Central American art can be found in the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture; Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies; Art and Documentation; FUSE Magazine; and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literatures, along with chapters in edited books.

Mik Migwans is a member of Wiikwemikoong Unceded Territory and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Canada at the University of Toronto with a cross-appointment as Curator of Indigenous Art at the U of T Art Museum. Their research addresses Indigenous relations in museums, the power of makers, and the politics of place-making, with special attention to weaving, women, and water relations in the northeast. Their dissertation at Columbia University explores the natural fibre weaving traditions of the Great Lakes, especially the bulrushes which Renee Wasson Dillard has called "the first water protectors." Migwans has worked with the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Culture at Carleton University, the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation in M'Chigeeng First Nation and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.