Laura Warren Hill currently serves as an Associate Professor of Human Development in the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University. She is the author of Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, NY, 1940-1970, the co-editor of The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America, and the author of several articles on Malcolm X's relationship with the Rochester, NY community. Dr. Hill is a co-founder of the Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium (UNY-PRC) which seeks to create greater accountability in policing through research and action in upstate New York communities. Her current project examines the life and times of Betty Tyson, a Rochester woman who spent 25 years in New York's Bedford Hills for a murder she did not commit before she was exonerated and released in 1998.

Say Burgin is a historian of the 20th century US focusing on social movement and African American history. She is an assistant professor in the Department of History and contributing faculty to Africana Studies at Dickinson College. Her first book, Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit, was published by New York University Press in April 2024. It provides a new way of understanding the Black Power movement’s relationship to white America. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Women’s History Review, the Journal of American Studies, The Nation, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She has helped to develop numerous lesson plans and open-platform materials that allow educators to teach the fuller, more radical history of Rosa Parks and the Black freedom movement. Follow her on Twitter @sayburgin.

Ujju Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning at The New School. Her research engages public education, urban space, rights, and the state in relation to gendered political subjectivities, kinship, racial capitalism, social reproduction, and anti-carceral studies. Her first book, Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education, a historically informed ethnography of choice as it emerged in the post-Civil Rights period in the United States, was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Her current project, Education Against Enclosure, is supported by the Spencer Foundation. Ujju also brings along history working to build organizing for educational justice, immigrants’ rights, and abolition as well as projects at the intersection of arts and social justice, popular education, and adult literacy. She serves on the Board of Teachers Unite, on the Advisory Boards of the Parent Leadership Project (Bloomingdale Family Head Start Center, PLP), PARCEO (Participatory Action-Research Center for Education, Organizing), and the The Public Scholarship Practice Space (CUNY Graduate Center).

Shannon King is Associate Professor of History and director of the Black Studies program at Fairfield University where he teaches courses on the Black Freedom Struggle, Urban and Social History, Gender and Women's History, carceral studies, and racial capitalism. His work has appeared in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Urban History, and Reviews in American History; and essays in Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North, and Escape from New York! He is the author of Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era and The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York.