Rich Blint is a scholar, writer, and curator. He is assistant professor of Literature in the Department of Literary Studies, director of the Program in Race and Ethnicity, and affiliate faculty in Gender Studies at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. He is co-editor of a special issue of African American Review on James Baldwin, wrote the introduction and notes for Baldwin for Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for a Time of Sorrow and Struggle (Beacon Press), and served as Guest Critic for the October 2016 issue of The Brooklyn Rail on James Baldwin. He is co-editor of the recently published African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 (Cambridge University Press), and upcoming books include A Radical Interiority: James Baldwin and the Personified Self in Modern American Culture, and Duppy Umbrella and Other Stories. His writing has appeared in Bomb Magazine, African American Review, James Baldwin Review, Anthropology Now, The Believer, McSweeney's, The Brooklyn Rail, sx visualities, and the A-Line: a journal of progressive thought where he serves as editor-at-large. A semi-regular contributor to exhibition catalogs, his curatorial projects include: Renee Cox: Revisiting The Queen Nanny of the Maroons Series, (Columbia University), The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on Film, (The Film Society of Lincoln Center), The First Sweet Music, (The John and June Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center), and Bigger Than Shadows, (DODGEgallery, New York). Rich was the 2016-2017 Scholar-in-Residence in the MFA Program in Performance and Performance Studies at Pratt Institute, and a 2017-2018 Research Fellow at the Center for Experimental Humanities at New York University. He has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship foundations.

Nadia Williams is an Associate Professor in the School of Design Strategies and Associate Dean of the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons. As a recipient of the 2021 University Distinguished Teaching Award, her teaching explores the power of art and design when historically oppressive systems are disrupted and experiences of people of color are centered. Nadia has collaborated on a range of university-wide initiatives of access, equity and social justice. As Director of the Parsons Scholars Program for nine years, she developed a framework through which NYC high school students explore art, design and social justice within a curriculum that centers their intersectional identities of people of color from low income backgrounds. Nadia has shared her work at Race Forward’s Facing Race conference, the Reconstructing Practice conference on antiracist curriculum at Art Center College of Design, and at NCORE (the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education). She is an alumna of the CCCADI (Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute) Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship and co-founder of the Radical Mama Educator inquiry-to-action group through NYCoRE (NY Collective of Radical Educators). Currently, her creative practice is grounded in family history research as a radical act of reconnecting with ancestors and reclaiming history which has been erased by systems of white supremacy. Nadia considers her roles as educator, arts administrator, artist, and mother to be commitments to sustaining the brilliant legacies of historically marginalized communities.

Mia Charlene White, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Urban & Environmental Studies in the Schools for Public Engagement at The New School. Originally from Queens, Mia identifies as a Black woman of African American and Korean descent. She is a proud mother of two creative children and has been recognized for transformation and healing-centered teaching methods with a 2021 university-wide Social Justice Teaching award. Mia did her PhD in urban planning at MIT, her master of international affairs at Columbia, and her bachelor’s degree in anthropology at SUNY Stonybrook. For the last few years, Mia has been engaged in multiple conversations linking land and housing justice for a new social contract, and is working on her first book manuscript exploring reparations through housing and land decommodification models. She is a 2022-2023 Mellon Faculty Fellow and serves as Associate Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, and Associate Director of the Housing Justice Lab at Parsons. She co-leads the BIPOC Planners Collective @ Planners Network; is a member of the Black Geographers Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG); is a appointed member of the South Orange Village (NJ) Zoning Board of Adjustment, and is an elected member of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Mia works with several community-based organizations in NJ and NYC to deliver political education on affordable housing, environmental justice, and racial justice. She was recently a jurist for the inaugural Bandung 2022 Artists Residency recently launched by A4 and MoCADA, a new program to foster solidarity and understanding between Black and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities in NYC. Mia's work is interdisciplinary, situated among radical planners, geographers, urban theorists, sociologists and historians seeking to link social science, humanities, and protest.