Tina M. Campt, Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Theaster Gates, artist, and Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago
Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Saidiya V Hartman, University Professor, Columbia University
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor in Film and Television production, Queens College, CUNY
Arthur Jafa, artist, filmmaker and cinematographer
Simone Leigh, artist
Okwui Okpokwasili, writer, performer, and choreographer
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, MoMA
Bradford Young, cinematographer