Mehrunnisa Wani is a photojournalist and an adjunct professor at York College, The City University of New York. She is a longtime contributor to Forbes where she covers international development and inequity.

Michael Waters is the author of The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, Vox and The Atlantic, among other publications.

Yohuru Williams is an American academic, author and activist. Williams is a professor of history and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) and a notable scholar of the civil rights movement.

Kedon Willis is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature at CUNY City College. Follow him on Twitter : @KedonWillis

Elizabeth Yuko, Ph.D., is a bioethicist and journalist, as well as an adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic.

Author and historian Adam Zamoyski has written more than a dozen books on European history, including the best-selling 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow and his recent acclaimed biography Napoleon: A Life.

Bob Zeller has authored or co-authored 20 books, including _Lincoln in 3-D, The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography,_and Fighting the Second Civil War: A History of Battlefield Preservation and the Emergence of the Civil War Trust. He is co-founder and president of The Center for Civil War Photography.