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Michael Mandiberg is an artist who created Print Wikipedia, edited The Social Media Reader (2012), and cofounded Art+Feminism. They are professor of media culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of US History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and contributing editor for the Boston Review. He is the author of several books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2018) and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (1990).

Jayna Brown is coeditor of Social Text and professor of media studies at Pratt Institute. Brown is the author of two books: Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (2008) and Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (2021).

Tavia Nyong'o is professor of performance studies at Yale University and the author of two books, The Amalgamation Waltz (2009) and Afro-Fabulations (2018). He is presently working on a third book, on critical negativity in Black thought. He is editor at large for Social Text and coeditor of the Sexual Cultures book series. With Joshua Chambers-Letson, he also coedited the posthumously published volume of essays, The Sense of Brown (2020), by José Esteban Muñoz.