Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD, is a London-born, Black British award-winning writer, professor, and interdisciplinary sound artist who grew up between the UK and New York. She studied literature at Princeton University before pursuing a PhD at Yale University, which led her to explore global Black and Asian intellectual histories, political, and ecological life. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Artsy, and Boston Review. Tao is writing a book called Black Capital, Chinese Debt (Duke University Press, forthcoming) exploring a long Afro-Asian history of affective and financial indebtedness after the abolition of racial slavery from 1806 to the present. She lives and works in Manhattan where she is a member of NEW INC. She is the Executive Director of the Afro-Asia Group.

Dr. Saudi Garcia is a skilled organizational steward, facilitator, social movement organizer, scholar and writer. She is the Director of the Freedom and Justice Institute and of the Dominican-Haitian social justice, peace and liberation organization In Cultured Company. She is a graduate of Brown University, New York University, and a former Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2022-24) at The New School’s Department of Anthropology. Dr. Garcia is an ethnographic researcher and social transformation practitioner who draws from a queer, Black feminist, decolonial and first-generation immigrant perspective. She is formally-trained as a medical anthropologist who theorizes how Black Dominican experiences expand current understandings of racial capitalism, climate catastrophe