Josiane Hudicourt-Barnes has been a teacher, teacher trainer, administrator, and researcher in the field of Haitian Kreyòl, bilingual education, and language and cognitive development. She studied psychology at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico in San German, Creole Linguistics at Indiana University in Bloomington, and Language Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge. She is one of the founding members of the Haitian Studies Association. Her research is about the type of thinking and language skills students from diverse cultural backgrounds bring to learning situations. Her scholarly publications center on connecting classrooms work to funds of knowledge...

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic specializing in Francophone Studies. An associate professor at Boston College, her scholarship and teaching on world literatures in French includes Black France, sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, and the Haitian diaspora. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an AM and PhD from Harvard University. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Mays Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She is the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (2014) as well as numerous essays that have appeared...

Joëlle Vitiello is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Macalester College. She co-edited Elles écrivent des Antilles (Haïti, Guadeloupe, Martinique) with Susanne Rinne and Women at the Threshold of the XXIst Century: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives with Dana Strand. She has published many articles in professional journals and chapters in collectives on Haitian literature and culture (especially on Emile Ollivier; Gérard Etienne; Dany Laferrière; Marie Vieux Chauvet; Raoul Peck; Marie-Célie Agnant; Paulette Poujol-Oriol; Kettly Mars; Jean Price-Mars; René Depestre; Yanick Lahens; Yanick Jean; Lyonel Trouillot, Jan J. Dominique, Jean-Claude Charles and Evelyne Trouillot).

I received my M.A. and Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Kentucky respectively in 2016 and 2019.

I am a part time lecturer of Haitian-Kreyol at Johns Hopkins University. My interests are many but my focus is to find a solution to Haiti's greatness. I believe the solution lies in the language. Haitian-Kreyol is the language of revolution and strength. If it was good enough to help defeat the great colonizers of the 18th century, it is good enough to get us out of the misery we find ourselves in currently.

Executive Director of the Haitian Cultural Foundation; board member of Le Musée d'Art Haïtien. My area of expertise includes social advocacy and political analysis. Since 1988, I have been an avid art collector and specialist on Haitian culture with academic and intellectual collaborative work on the subject of Haitian art and Vodou (Lectures, seminars, documentary film, curatorial work and events...). In 2003, I started servicing journalists and have since worked, at times intensively, with international medias and professionals as a fixer or local producer.

Dr. April J. Mayes is an Associate Professor of History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. A historian of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean with an emphasis on the nineteenth-century social and political history of the Dominican Republic, her first book, The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Nation in the Dominican Republic, won the Isis Duarte Prize from the Haiti-Dominican Republic Section of LASA. With Ginetta Candelario and Elizabeth Manley, Dr. Mayes co-edited the two-volume collection of primary sources about Dominican feminist history, Cien años de feminismos dominicanos, published in the Dominican Republic with the National Archives (Archivo General de la Nación)....

Elizabeth McAlister is Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Wesleyan University. Her research focuses on Afro-Caribbean religions, music, and race theory, with a focus on Haiti. She is author of Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora, and, Race, Nation, and Religion in the America. Her current research focuses on relationships and spatial imaginings shared by American and Haitian evangelicals, including the evangelical missions to refugee camps after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Siobhan Meï is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Fellow in Women and Gender Studies. Siobhan's current research project focuses on the intersections of fashion, translation, and fiction in the Black Atlantic. Siobhan's translations and scholarly publications have appeared in The Fashion Studies Journal, The Routledge Handbook on Translation, Feminism, and Gender, Mutatis Mutandis, Transference, Callaloo, sx salon, and Caribbean Quarterly among other places. Siobhan is a lecturer in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst where she teaches courses on ethics, society, and technology.