Jennifer Rittner is a writer, educator and communications strategist currently serving as Assistant Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design. Among the recent publications she wrote or edited are a special issue on design and policing for Design Museum magazine (2021); The Black Experience in Design (2022) with Anne H. Berry and Kelly Walters; Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers (2023); and Crafted Kinship: Contemporary Makers from the Caribbean with Malene Barnett (in progress). She has worked for Pentagram Design, Viacom, Columbia Center for New Media, AIGA, American Federation of Arts, Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of American Folk Art. Among her clients are Studio Kudos, Memo, Ona, Black Artists + Designers Guild, Matter (now Modern Objects), Hyperakt, and SJI Associates. Jennifer has written and spoken extensively on matters of equity and inclusion in design.

Jack Jin Gary Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. His scholarship explores how race and law shape the social logics and processes of governance in modern empires and (post)colonial states. He is interested in "direct rule" and the multivalent uses of legal technologies and narratives in the regulation of social bodies. Among his projects, Gary Lee is working on a book, The Mythology of Direct Rule, on the significance of law and race in the making of “direct rule” in the nineteenth-century British Empire. Focusing on the reconstitution of Jamaica and the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) as Crown Colonies over the second half of the nineteenth century, this project examines the structures, practices, and legacies of “direct rule” in relation to “plural societies.” His dissertation on this topic won the University of California, San Diego’s 2018 Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal (Social Sciences).

Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Strategic Design at Parsons, The New School. Trained as an anthropologist, Sareeta focuses on the relationship between digital technologies, formations of capitalism, and legacies of race, caste, and class. Her first book, Encoding Race, Encoding Class, published by Duke University Press, is an ethnographic study of Indian IT workers living in Berlin. It was the winner of the Diana Forsythe Prize in Anthropology and the International Convention of Asian Studies Book Prize.