Erika Lee is an award-winning historian, professor, and author. The Bae Family Professor of History and the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University, she is the author of several prize-winning books including The Making of Asian America: A History; America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States; and Made in Asian America: A History for Young People (with Christina Soontornvat). Lee is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Past President of the Organization of American Historians, and testified before Congress in its historic hearings on anti-Asian discrimination and violence in 2021.

Thomas (Spirit Tree) Green is a descendent of the Neponset band of Massachusett who gathered at the praying town of Ponkapoag. He is a Tribal Council member and Chairman of the Tribe’s historical preservation committee and Indigenous artist focused on quahog shell, seed bead jewelry and traditional Indigenous regalia. He is also an Indigenous culture steward, educator, consultant and artist specializing in the Indigenous history of the Massachusetts and Indigenous land acknowledgements.

Rachel TonThat is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working with narrative structures around themes of possible futures, memory, and space-time across mediums, including socially engaged art. She is co-founder of the publishing project, Oreades Press, curates the project space Airtight Garage, and volunteers as director of the North Shore AAPI Coalition. She was selected for the inaugural She Who Has No Master(s) writing mentorship through the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network and completed her MA Fine Art at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work has been supported by the city of Zurich, canton St. Gallen, New England Foundation For the Arts, Mass Cultural Council, Collective Futures Fund, Tin House Writing Workshop, Fondation Jan Michalski, and more. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in Diacritics, The Amp, and Boston Art Review, and she is the co-author of Die Alp an sich, a bilingual book of translations and retellings of Swiss folklore from Poets & Traitors Press.

Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the political ecology of landscape and space. Migrating between video, sound, and performance, her expanded nonfiction media projects shift the visual dimension of landscape to allow hidden stories of environmental and social transformation to emerge. Her solo and collaborative creative work—most notably with Compass and the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service—has been presented through the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Documenta 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, Krannert Art Museum, Cooper Union, Smart Museum, and numerous academic and artist-run venues. Her writings on landscape, ecology and contemporary art have appeared in Acme, Leonardo, Parallax, and Art Journal and numerous edited volumes. She is Associate Professor of Media Arts in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University.

Elizabeth Solomon is an elder and officer of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. She speaks frequently about local Indigenous histories and issues and has a long-standing commitment to the preservation of cultural heritage and community building that she brings to both her paid and volunteer work. In this capacity, Ms. Solomon works with varied institutions as they navigate developing meaningful relationships with her community and serves on multiple government and private advisory and management boards including those for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, the Stone Living Lab, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission.  Ms. Solomon has a master’s degree in museum studies and frequently works with museums and historic sites to help bring the voices and stories of Native communities and others that are currently underrepresented in museum exhibits and public history programs to the forefront.

Born and raised in London, England, Toni Waldron brings her unique perspective as a multiracial, multiethnic immigrant into her work. Toni lives her mission- transforming traditional educational spaces to include the voices of those most pressed to the margins. Through her engagement with radical critical consciousness and dialogue she brings a gender-expansive, decolonial, anti-racist framework into focus in her concepts and project building. Toni is a lifetime educator and community organizer who has worked collaboratively and in dialogue with co-conspirators seeking opportunities to build a better world with youth for over 15 years. Her work has spanned several projects including organizing educational summits in her early career working at Girls Inc. NYC and, while in her new home of Gloucester MA, organizing the first city-wide annual Juneteenth festival and celebration. Currently, Toni is working as a middle school visual arts teacher and for a fourth year she is serving as the Gloucester Student Arts Festival Coordinator. Toni is particularly excited to serve in her role as Project Scholar working under the Mass Humanities "Expanding Our Stories" grant for the Wellspring House where she developed curriculum to share the story of the Freeman Family- a prominent Black family who lived and thrived in Gloucester for over 100 years.