Aja Y. Martinez is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the multi-award-winning book Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory, now in its second edition.

Robert O. Smith (Chickasaw) is Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and author of More Desired Than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism.

Together, Martinez and Smith are coauthors of The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement.