Gretchen Barton (she/her) is Principal at Worthy Strategy Group, LLC, Research Director at Future Majority, and former policy lead at the Harvard-founded research firm, Olson Zaltman. With a special interest in the psychology underpinning behavior change, Gretchen has designed and delivered a number of initiatives in the policy space, including studies around poverty in America for the Gates Foundation and Gender Justice for Story-at-Scale.

As a media and strategic communication professional, Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds has over 30 years working in community media, and has served as an advocate for California’s ethnic and local media, as well as a strategist utilizing Black media as a tool for targeted outreach.

Makiba J. Foster is the manager of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) for Broward County Libraries. Her most recent project funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services is Archiving the Black Web, an historic project with national partners representing HBCU libraries and renowned public libraries like the Schomburg Center and Auburn Avenue Research Library.

Erin Glasco is an independent archivist and researcher. Erin’s interests include exploring how to meaningfully integrate radical empathy, rest, and anti-capitalism into their archival practice, and supporting the documentation of Black, queer, feminist informed grassroots movement work. Erin uses they/them/theirs pronouns.

Lae’l Hughes-Watkins is the Founder of Project STAND, and the architect of the reparative archive framework, mentioned in her article, "Moving Toward a Reparative Archive: A Roadmap for a Holistic Approach to Disrupting Homogenous Histories in Academic Repositories and Creating Inclusive Spaces for Marginalized Voices." She has launched workshops that focus on this archival praxis, which centers on community building as a first step.

Anthony R. Jerry is an associate professor of Anthropology and Black Study at the University of California Riverside. His academic research focuses on blackness, racial value, and citizenship in Latin America, Mexico, and the US Southwest. He is the Founder and Director of The Empathy Archive, a digital education platform focused on increasing Racial Literacy and Social and Emotional Learning Competencies in the US. He is also the CEO of Query, Qualitative Research Consulting, LLC.

Michelle G. Magalong, PhD is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at University of Maryland. Dr. Magalong serves as President of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP), a national volunteer-run, nonprofit organization. Her research and professional experience focus on community engagement, historic preservation, and social justice.

Tayo Medupin is a researcher, facilitator, design strategist and design justice advocate. Tayo (she/her) brings with her 12 years of experience putting humanity at the heart of business, health and social equity issues. She has worked with some of the worlds largest brands including Wellcome Trust, Alphabet X, Impact for Urban Health and NSPCC.

Diego Merizalde has built his career in an intersection between public sector projects, private consulting, and politics, with extensive experience building social justice strategies and managing projects in cultural and philanthropic institutions.

Gabriel Daniel Solís (he/him) is a LA-based community memory worker that has consulted on a wide range of archives and public memory projects. He has consulted with the Ford Foundation’s Reclaiming the Border Narrative initiative, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Oral History Project, the UCLA Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration project, and Separated: Stories of Injustice and Solidarity, a National Endowment for the Humanities supported project documenting the lived experiences of parents separated from their children at the U.S./Mexico border.

Harmony Labs is a 501c(3) non-profit on a mission to create a world where media systems support democratic culture and healthy, happy people. They’ve been doing audience, narrative, and story analysis for more than a decade, helping storytellers channel the immense power of audience, story, and narrative to shape the future.