Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Interim Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, where she is also the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts. She has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University.

She is also an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Colbert is the author of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, and The African American Theatrical Body. Colbert co-edited Race and Performance After Repetition and The Psychic Hold of Slavery. Most recently, she served as a Creative Content Producer for The Public Theatre’s audio play, shadow/land. [@DrSoyica]

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is a career journalist, author and adjunct instructor at the USC Annenberg Specialized Journalism program. She is also Associate Director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, part of USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Before her appointments at USC, Janice headed Special Projects at the Los Angeles Review of Books and Senior Editor of Women, Culture and Media.

Janice is currently writing a memoir exploring the history of her family and food in East Tennessee, as well as a collection of short stories centered on life, love, and reclamation during menopause. [@janicerhoshalle]

Derrick Reaves, a native New Yorker, is an introspective essayist focused on African American mental health and sociopolitical issues. Spurred by the 2020 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, Reaves has been asserting his voice through his writing to comment on the times in which we live. He attended Florida State University majoring in biology and psychological studies. Reaves is working on a collection of essays for a forthcoming book. [@d_dayze]