William T. Hoston, PhD, is an award-winning scholar and author who hails from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is professor of political science at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU).His academic monograph, Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston (2018), which examined the deaths of Black trans women, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies in 2019.

Will Guzmán is an assistant vice chancellor and professor of history at North Carolina Central University in Durham. He is the author of Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism (2015) and co-editor of Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine (2023).