Derron Wallace is Associate Professor of Sociology, Education and (by courtesy) African and African American Studies at Brandeis University, USA. He is also a Research Fellow the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and the University of Manchester, England.

Kassie Freeman is Founding President and CEO of the African Diaspora Consortium and Senior Research Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

Ernest Morrell is Professor of English and Africana Studies, Director of the Center for Literacy Education, and Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Henry Levin is William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Columbia University and David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University, USA.