Ayanna Thompson is a Regents Professor of English and the Executive Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). In 2021, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lore/tta LeMaster (she/they) is a critical/cultural communication and performance scholar. Her scholarship engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference.

Harleen Kaur is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Sanford School. Her research interests are in racism, state formation, and belonging, while her teaching covers a variety of local and global approaches to inequalities.

Nicole Mayberry is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Public Affairs.

Reynolds is a director at the ASU California Center, where she is also an associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.