Dr. Stefan M. Bradley is the Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Professor of Black Studies and History at Amherst College. He is the author of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League, which won the Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies and the History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award and was a finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History Society. He is also the author of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence, and Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s.

Danica Savonick is an ACLS Fellow and an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland, where she teaches courses on multicultural and African American literature, feminist theory, and digital humanities. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. in English from Rutgers University. Her current book project, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College is forthcoming from Duke University Press (2024). Her research has appeared in MELUS, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Keywords for Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Hybrid Pedagogy as well as Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle.

She is currently working on a project about the radical writers and artists who taught at Livingston College (part of Rutgers University) in the 1970s.

Barbara D. Savage is an historian and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought and Africana Studies. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford where a thesis prize in Black History is named in her honor

Savage has written three books and co-edited two others. Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar is an intellectual biography of an African American woman who taught in the fields of diplomatic history and international relations at Howard University from 1942 to 1977. With graduate degrees from from Oxford (1935) and Harvard (1941), Tate was one of the few black women academics of her generation and a prolific scholar with a wide-range of interests. Savage’s introductory essay on Tate was included in Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, a collaborative collection she co-edited with Mia Bay, Farah J. Griffin, and Martha S. Jones. Her books include Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion and Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948. In addition, she is co-editor of Women and Religion in the African Diaspora, a collaborative project led by R. Marie Griffith.

Brian P. Jones is an American educator, scholar, activist, and actor. He is the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools of The New York Public Library, and formerly the Associate Director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where he was also a scholar in residence. Jones earned a PhD in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center and has contributed to several books on issues of racism, inequality, and Black education history, most recently to Black Lives Matter At School: An Uprising for Educational Justice. He is the author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History (NYU Press Black Power Series).