Amy Galpin is the chief curator, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum-FIU, Miami.

Katherine Manthorne is professor of Art of the United States, Latin America, and Their Cross-Currents, 1750-1950 and deputy executive officer, the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Jorge Duany is director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. Dr. Duany has written extensively on Cuban and Caribbean migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism. He has published twenty-two books, including Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora (2019).