Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist was awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in May 2019. She is the recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship, among a number of awards and grants. She was an Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2011 to 2012. Dr. Jareh Das is an independent curator, writer, and researcher who lives and works between West Africa and the United Kingdom. Helen Molesworth is a Los Angeles-based writer, podcaster, and curator. Her major museum exhibitions include: Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 , This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s , and Work Ethic .

She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum , Art Journal , Documents , and October . The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize. Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is a professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, and a senior writer and editor-at-large at The Brooklyn Rail . Drew Thompson is an art historian and curator of African and Black Diaspora visual and material culture.