Paul Carter Harrison is an award-winning playwright, director, and theatre theorist who has had a long artistic association with the Negro Ensemble Company.

Pellom McDaniels III was the curator of African American collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, USA.

Michael D. Harris is an arts scholar and artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally, is represented in public and private collections including those of David Driskell, Hampton University Museum, Howard University, The Paul Jones Collection at the University of Delaware and the University of Alabama, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and many others.