Thelma Golden is Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York.

Naomi Beckwith is Deputy Director and Senior Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Chrissie Iles is a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Kellie Jones is Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Departments of Art History & Archaeology, and African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.