Keith P. Feldman is Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, USA. An interdisciplinary cultural studies scholar, Feldman's work examines the interface between race, knowledge, and U.S. imperial culture, with a particular focus on varied entanglements between the United States and the Middle East.

Ra Malika Imhotep is Assistant Professor of International/Global African Diaspora Studies at Spelman College, USA. Ra's work is invested in interdisciplinary experiments in Black feminist knowledge production rooted in Southern and Circum-Atlantic vernacular/folk cultures. Ra's academic work has been published in The Drama Review, Women & Performance, Palimpsest, #identity: Hashtagging, Race, Gender, and Nation, and several forthcoming anthologies. Ra has also published creative-critical works of poetry and prose including their debut poetry collection gossypiin (2022).

Rashad Arman Timmons is a Ph.D. candidate in African Diaspora Studies and New Media Studies at the University of California Berkeley, USA. Rashad's research interrogates how the past, especially U.S. histories of chattel slavery and Native dispossession, shapes the built environments, technoscapes, infrastructures, and racial geographies of our present. Rashad's current manuscript investigates the role of infrastructure in the plunder and persistence of Black geographies in Ferguson, Missouri, from the antebellum period to the tragic 2014 death of Michael Brown, Jr.