Katelyn D. Crawford is The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, following a role as assistant curator of American Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Earlier positions include a Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellow at the Henry Luce Foundation Inc. and a Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She lives in Birmingham, AL.

Jade Powers is the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL. Prior to her current role she was curator of contemporary art at Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida and assistant curator of contemporary art at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. She lives in Birmingham, AL.

Kelli Morgan is the Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive in Detroit, MI. She has held curatorial positions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She lives in Detroit.

Imani Perry is Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor in African & African American Studies and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Perry is the author of nine books, including the New York Times Bestseller South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation which received the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction. imaniperryauthor.com

Laura Woodard is librarian and archivist, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.