Kandace L. Harris is special assistant to the president and associate professor of mass communication and media studies at Shaw University.

Kandace L. Harris is special assistant to the president and associate professor of mass communication and media studies at Shaw University.

Tina M. Harris is the inaugural Douglas Manship-Dori I. Maynard Endowed Chair of Race, Media, and Cultural Literacy in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. This is the first endowment of its kind in the U. S. Her primary research interest is interracial communication, with foci on critical communication pedagogy, race and identity, diversity and media representations, racial social justice, mentoring, and racial reconciliation. She is a 2022 National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar and is regularly invited to contribute original research to books, top-tier journals, handbooks, and encyclopedias in communication and other disciplines. Harris is a very active senior scholar with many accolades and awards for her longstanding history of making valuable contributions to the discipline.

Mia Moody is professor and chair of the Department of Journalism, Public Relations, and New Media in the College of Arts & Sciences at Baylor University, USA. Moody's research emphasizes image repair, intersectionality, critical race theory, and media framing of women and people of color.

Shauntae Brown White is coordinator of the Women's and Gender Studies program and associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication at North Carolina Central University.