Anna Arabindan-Kesson is Associate Professor of Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University. She is the author of Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World, which won the 2023 Historians of British Art Award for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800 and 1960.

Paul M. Farber is Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab. Farber is the author or coeditor of several books including Monument Lab: Re:Generation (Temple) and A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall.

Yolanda Wisher is the Senior Curator at Monument Lab. She is the author of the poetry collection Monk Eats an Afro and was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1999 and Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2016. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation's Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change. In 2022, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow.