Carole Boyce Davies is Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University, New York.

Janell Hobson is a Professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.

Angelique V. Nixon is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Christen A. Smith is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.