Grace Dillon is an Anishinaabe academic and author. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University and coined the term Indigenous Futurisms.

Abbas Rattani is co-founder of MIPSTERZ, an arts and culture collective that highlights and amplifies marginalized communities, specifically focusing on the creative voices of Muslim Americans. Rattani is also the curator of the “ALHAMDU | Muslim Futurism” exhibition.

Rasheedah Phillips is co-founder of the Black Quantum Futurism collective and writes on Afrodiasporic concepts of time and cosmology. You can contact Phillips through the Black Quantum Futurism website or via Rasheedah Phillips Official Site.

Reynaldo Anderson is a communications scholar at Temple University. He is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM), an international network of artists, intellectuals, creatives and activists. He is also co-editor of Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness and The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design (Lexington Books, 2015, 2019) and […]

Ytasha L. Womack is an independent scholar, filmmaker and the author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture.

Cole Arthur Riley is a writer from Pittsburgh, creator of Black Liturgies and author of This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, exploring Black spirituality, contemplative practice and Gen Z life.

Yasmin Moll is ama cultural anthropologist of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Michigan. Her research spans the intersections of religion, media, youth and politics as well as questions of race, indigeneity and heritage activism in the region.

Imran Ali Malik is a coffee lover, journalist and podcaster trained in Islamic theology, who can speak to the intersections of youth, global Islam and digital religious networks.