Elvis Mitchell is the entertainment critic for NPR's Weekend Edition. He is a Visiting Lecturer on African and African American Studies and on Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Mitchell was a film critic for the New York Times from 2000 to 2004, and has written for Spin, Interview, Esquire and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is currently editor at large at Interview magazine.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is highly regarded for his strikingly intimate portraits of world leaders and major cultural figures. Fifteen books and catalogs have been published on his portraiture. He is on the masthead as a contributing photographer at Vanity Fair magazine. In 2005, he was profiled on the television show, 60 Minutes.