Becky Thompson is a scholar, poet, and activist. Her poetry collections include To Speak in Salt (forthcoming) and Zero Is the Whole I Fall into at Night. Her two edited volumes of poetry include Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by and for Refugees (with Palestinian poet, Jehan Bseiso) and Fingernails across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora (co-edited with Randall Horton).

Lauren Muller taught with June Jordan at the University of California at Berkeley for many years. She was the editor of June Jordan's Poetry for the People.

Dominique C. Hill is a qualitative researcher and body archivist of intergenerational survival through Black girlhood and Black queer resistance. A Black girlhood scholar and homegirl of Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), Hill takes seriously cultivating spaces for Black girl freedom. Hill extends the possibilities of Black girlhood and vulnerability as an assistant professor of Women's Studies at Colgate University.

Durell M. Callier is an artist-scholar who employs Black feminist and queer methodologies to explore the interconnectivity of race, gender, sexuality, and culture. His research documents, analyzes, and interrogates the lived experiences of Black youth and their communities. Callier's scholarship illuminates how Black art and creative practices subvert, respond to, and reimagine Black life amidst anti-Black and anti-queer violence.