Na'ilah Suad Nasir is the president of the Spencer Foundation, which funds education research nationally. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association. The co-editor (with Megan Bang) of Acts of Imagination (The New Press), she lives in San Francisco.

Megan Bang (Ojibwe and Italian descent) is a professor at Northwestern University and a member of the National Academy of Education. The co-author with Bryan Brayboy, Ananda Marin, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith of Across Lands and Waters (The New Press), she lives in Chicago, Illinois.