Emily Peacock is a Houston-based artist; she received her MFA in Photography/Digital Media from the University of Houston and is a Professor of Art at Sam Houston State University. Peacock was a 2013-2014 Lawndale Artist Studio Program participant. In 2016, she received the Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant and in 2019, the New Faculty Research Grant. She has had solo exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center, Houston and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States, Vienna, Austria, and the United Kingdom. Peacock’s work is in the permanent collections of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Alivé Piliado-Santana is a curator, arts administrator, and writer based between Chicago and Mexico City. She is currently the ALAM Curatorial Associate at the National Museum of Mexican Art, part of the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums initiative supported by the Ford, Getty, Mellon, and Terra Foundations. Previously, she held the position of Research Associate in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she co-curated Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris (2025) and contributed to Remedios Varo: Science Fictions (2023). In Mexico, she held curatorial roles at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos and Museo Nacional de Arte. Her work centers contemporary Latine artists whose practices explore diaspora, identity, language, and migration. Recent projects include Leticia Pardo's storefront into _chicagoacán_ (2024). Her writing has been published by the Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes México, Fundación Sebastián, and Letras Libres.

Njeri Rutherford is a dance artist, scholar, arts administrator, and entrepreneur from Detroit, MI. She received her B.A. in Dance and Communication Arts from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC. After relocating to New York City to pursue her career as an artist she discovered her passion for arts administration and gained experience in development and fundraising through her work at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research, Dance/NYC, and others. She has choreographed and performed at many notable venues including Charlotte Dance Festival, Dixon Place, and BRIC. She is the founder of The Barre, an artist services company whose mission is to bridge the gap between Black artists and proper funding, resources, and notoriety. Njeri is a 2023 graduate of the University of Michigan where she obtained an MFA in Dance and a certificate in World Performance Studies. She currently serves as the Program Manager for events and grantmaking at CultureSource in Detroit.