Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic are the New York Times bestselling authors of Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man.

A journalist for over a decade, Gregory Wakeman was raised in England but is now based in the United States. He has written for the BBC, The New York Times, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

Shaun Walker is the Central and Eastern European correspondent for The Guardian and author of the book, The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past, published by Oxford University Press. Follow him on Twitter at @shaunwalker7.

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