Dr. Guitele Jeudy Rahill, Associate Professor of Social Work in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at USF, received her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Florida International University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her research interests include interactions among traditional norms, health beliefs and practices, biopsychosocial conditions, geographical disasters, and structural violence, as they impact domestic and sexual violence, psychological trauma, biological illnesses and family system disruption among underserved populations. Accordingly, her research activities involve adapting Evidence-Based health and mental health interventions such as Haitians in Haiti and in the Diaspora. She accomplishes her objectives in collaboration with her esteemed colleague Dr. Manisha Joshi, Haitian community members in Haiti and in the U.S., and health providers in both settings. The aim is to increase the uptake of Evidence-based interventions to Haitian populations via contextual adaptation, implementation and dissemination. She has several published works in the American Journal of Public health, the Journal of Affective Disorder, the Journal of Ethnicity and Health, the AIDS journal, the Disasters Journal, and the Journal of Health care for the Poor and Underserved. She has been honored with several research and service awards, including awards for research excellence and outstanding mentoring.

Since July 2015 I have been an Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies in the Département d'études françaises (Department of French Studies) at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. I am interested in the intersection of nineteenth-century Haitian literature (1804-1915), expressions of nationalism, and Haitian history. Currently, I am studying Haitian texts which imagine forms of kinship between the fifteenth-century indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola—the Taino—and nineteenth century Haitians. Specifically, I analyse how these texts drew upon narratives of the Taino in order to construct "indigenous" Haitian identities rooted in the Caribbean.

Fredo Rivera is Assistant Professor of Art History. Their recent research explores Cuban art, architecture and visual culture, Haitian art, and art, architecture, urban planning and popular Media in contemporary Miami.

Shearon Roberts, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Mass Communication and African American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans. She earned her Ph.D. from Tulane University in Latin American and Caribbean studies and her M.M.C. from Louisiana State University. She researches media representations of race and gender, disaster and crisis news, the Black Press, comparative media systems, and Latin American and Caribbean media, specifically Haitian media. She is co-author of Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster (2014, University Press of Mississippi), co-editor of HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis: The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans (2017, Lexington Books), and editor of Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements (2020, Lexington Books). She is the author of the forthcoming book Media Discourse in Haiti. She is the director of My Nola, My Story, a digital humanities platform that archives the stories of people of color in New Orleans. She served as the 2018 President of the SWECJMC and is a recipient of two AEJMC division awards from the History Division and the International Communication Division. She has published several peer-reviewed studies on post-Katrina news and coverage of New Orleans, and the role of media in post-2010 Haiti.

BA Economics and Development Studies and MSc Political Economy of Development at SOAS (University of London) PhD on the political economy of haitian-dominican border relations

Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences with Specialization in Sociology, is a tenured full Professor in the Sociology Department at Brooklyn College and, between Fall 2016 and Spring 2020, served as the founding Director of the City University of New York's Haitian Studies Institute housed at Brooklyn College. His geographic focus is Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly Haiti and Mexico. He earned a B.A. in social work from the State University of Haiti, then served for 12 years as head of the library and as a member of the faculty of human sciences. He went on to gain a M.A. in Latin American studies from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. Saint Paul earned a Ph.D. in sociology from El Colegio de México — the first Haitian to do so since the foundation of the college in 1940. He was a professeur en mobilité universitaire (PUM) at the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 in France, a visiting scholar at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, at the University of Virginia, and a visiting fellow at SciencesPo at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI), National Council of Scientific Research (CNRS). Previously, He was a tenured professor of sociology and politics at the University of Guanajuato, in Mexico, where he co-founded the Ph.D. Program in Law, Politics and Government, the Master Program in Political Analysis, and the B.A. Program in Political Science.

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. She is author or co-editor of twelve books, including Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2020); Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018); Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014); Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Duke University Press, 2012); Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (Routledge, 2003); and Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Macmillan Caribbean, 2000). She is considered to be a "key theorist in mobilities studies" and specializes in the post-colonial context of the Caribbean.

Shelby Sinclair is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University focusing on nineteenth and twentieth century Black women's history in the United States and Caribbean. Her research interests include U.S. empire, sexual violence against black women, and black women's intellectual production. Her dissertation focuses on race and gender identity formation during the United States Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). Shelby earned her B.A. with Honors from Stanford University where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and recipient of the George M. Frederickson Award for Excellence in Honors Research.

Jonathan Michael Square is a writer and historian specializing in fashion and visual culture of the African Diaspora. He has a PhD in history from New York University, a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. from Cornell University. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and currently at Harvard University. He has written for Fashionista, Fashion Studies Journal, Refinery29, Vestoj, Hyperallergic, British Art Studies, and International Journal of Fashion Studies. A proponent in the power of social media as a platform for radical pedagogy, he founded and runs the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom, which explores the intersection of fashion and slavery. He also co-founded Rendering Revolution, which explores sartorial approaches to Haitian history.