Lydia Potts is a social scientist with specialization in migration studies as well as in gender studies. She teaches at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany and has vast experience in transnational research, teaching and curriculum development with European, Asian and African partners. Since 2011, she is the consortium coordinator of EMMIR, the African-European Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Migration and Intercultural Relation. From 2012 - 2015 she directed the research project ALMIN (Migrant One-Parent Families in Lower Saxony/Germany).

Garth Stevens is a clinical psychologist by training, he holds the position of Assistant Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities, as well as Professor in the Department of Psychology. From 2010-2012 he held the position of Co-Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is currently a B-rated researcher by the National Research Foundation (NRF), interested in psychosocial understandings of human development, and applying psychosocial thinking to our personal and social worlds where appropriate. The thrust of his research is however in critical and community psychology. His primary social research interests include foci on race, racism and related social asymmetries; racism and knowledge production; ideology, power and discourse; violence and its prevention; historical/collective trauma and memory; and masculinity, gender and violence.

Lewis Gordon is a philosopher, musician, and global political intellectual. He is Professor of Philosophy with affiliation in Jewish Studies, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, and International Studies at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Honorary Professor at the Unit of the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa; and the Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in the Faculty for Economics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He also is the drummer for the band ThreeGenerations (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCedXg5Lmzi_RNq172eDLE3g/videos) and a variety of jazz and blues bands in the New England area. His many books include Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Humanities Press, 1995), Her Majesty’s Other Children (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), Existentia Africana (Routledge, 2000), Disciplinary Decadence (Routledge, 2006), Disciplinary Decadence (Routledge, 2006), An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge UP, 2008), Of Divine Warning (with Jane Anna Gordon, Routledge, 2009), and, more recently, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (NY: Fordham UP; London: Hurst; Johannesburg: Wits UP, 2015; in Swedish, Vad Fanon Sa, Stockholm: TankeKraft förlag, 2016), La sud prin nord-vest: ReflecÅ£ii existenÅ£iale afrodiasporice, trans. Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (Cluj, Romania: IDEA Design & Print, 2016), and, with Fernanda Frizzo Bragato, Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives from the Global South (London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018). His forthcoming book is Fear of a Black Consciousness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the USA and Penguin Book in the UK). His recent articles include “Afro-Jewish Ethics?” in Explorations in Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics, edited by Curtis Hutt, Berel Dov Lerrner, and Julia Schwartzmann (Routledge, 2018), and “Juifs contre la Libération: Une critique afro-juive,” Tumultes (2018). He is chairperson of the awards committee for the Caribbean Philosophical Association, of which he was its first president. He edits the American Philosophical Association blog series Black Issues in Philosophy and co-edits the book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought. His Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/LewisGordonPhilosopher/ and he is on twitter: https://twitter.com/lewgord

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, African American Studies, University of California, Irvine) researches black political thought and the material conditions of knowledge production, black radical movements, and raced gender consciousness and queer and trans sexualities internationally and has several roles in publishing as the Managing Editor of the National Political Science Review and is one of the History/Social Science Book Review Editors for Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies. She is the author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability (University of California Press 2015) which emphasizes transnational linkages that made “poor whites” the central currency for US and South African intellectuals, philanthropists, and race relations policy makers and she is the editor of Theories of Blackness: On Life and Death (2011) and guest editor of numerous Special Issues including: “Black Feminism and Afro-Pessimism” (2018) co-edited with M. Shadee Malaklou in Theory and Event; “Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership” (2016) co-edited with Julia Jordan-Zachery in the National Political Science Review; “Twenty Years of South African Democracy, Volume 1” (2015) co-edited with Abebe Zegeye in African Identities; “Cedric J. Robinson: Radical Historiography, Black Ontology, and Freedom” (2013) co-edited with H.L.T. Quan in African Identities. Her work is published in: Contemptorary, Abolition, Journal of Contemporary Thought, Cultural Dynamics, African Identities, Social Justice, National Political Science Review, Politics, Groups, & Identities, South African Review of Sociology, New Political Science, Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Race and Class, and in the anthology Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence edited by Barbara Ige and Maria Ochoa. She is the winner of the 2017 Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics Mae C. King Distinguished Paper Award on Women, Gender and Black Politics and the 2015 and 2011 UC Irvine Chancellor’s Award for Fostering Undergraduate Research. She is a member of the LGBTQ Caucus of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the President of the LGBTQ Caucus of the American Political Science Association and past Co-Chair of the Ken Sherrill Best Dissertation on Sexuality and Politics Prize Award Committee.

Drucilla Cornell is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She is a playwright and also launched The uBuntu Project in South Africa in 2003 and has been working with the project ever since. Professor Cornell’s theoretical and political writings span a tremendous range of both topics and disciplines. From her early work in Critical Legal Studies and Feminist Theory to her more recent work on South Africa, transitional justice, and the jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin, Professor Cornell continues to think through new and evolving issues in philosophy and politics of global significance. Her latest title, coauthored with Stephen Seely, is called The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man.