Matthew L.M. Fletcher is a professor of law at Michigan State University College of Law and director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center.

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.

Dennis Smith is an associate professor of history and director of Native American studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Manley Begay is a professor in the Applied Indigenous Studies department and the department of politics and international affairs at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Northern Arizona

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