Randall Akee is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies at UCLA.

Carla Fredericks is chief executive officer of The Christensen Fund, a nonprofit focused on supporting the rights and self-determination of Indigenous people.

Matthew L.M. Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, where he teaches federal Indian law, tribal law, Anishinaabe legal and political philosophy, constitutional law, federal courts, and ethics.

Kim Tallbear-Dauphine is an associate professor of Native studies at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker is policy director and senior researcher at the Center for World Indigenous Studies.

Mark Trahant is an editor at large at Indian Country Today, an online news outlet, and has decades of experience in journalism, editing and reporting with a focus on Native

Patty Loew is a journalism professor and director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University.