Tschabalala Self attended Bard College and Yale University. She splits her time between New Haven, CT, and upstate NY.
Sasha Bonét is a professor at Columbia University.
Naomi Fry is a Brooklyn-based Israeli cultural critic on staff at the New Yorker.
G'Ra Asim is an Afropunk authority and musician who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother (Beacon Press).
Loryn Lopes is an NYC-based poet and screenplay writer (Queen of Glory, Suicide by Sunlight, Random Acts of Flyness).
Camille Okhio is a senior writer at Elle Decor and contributes to Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, Apartamento, Vogue, Pin-Up and W.
Raven Rakia is a journalist focused on the US criminal justice system whose work has been published in Vice, The Nation and Al Jazeera America.
Roya Marsh is Bronx-based poet, performer, educator and LGBTQIA activist who was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry.
Joshua Bennett is a professor at Dartmouth College and the author of Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf), a New York Times critic's pick.
Ayanna Dozier is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (Bloomsbury, 2020).