Leigh-Anne Francis is a Black queer associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and African American studies at The College of New Jersey. Her publications examine Black women and the carceral state, queer and trans people of color, and the continuum of subaltern resistive strategies in US history.

Janet Gray is a white professor emerita of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at The College of New Jersey. She has published on whiteness in nineteenth-century American women's poetry and on the convergences of feminist, peace, and environmental studies.