Annie Bares is a researcher living in Brooklyn. She works at the Mellon Foundation. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at SMU DataArts. She has taught courses in literature, film, and cultural policy at the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University. Her writing has been published in Lux Magazine, Public Books, ASAP/Journal, and elsewhere.

Charlotte Burns is a journalist and founder of Studio Burns and the co-founder of The Burns Halperin Report, the largest data study of its kind tracking representation in museums and the market. She is also the host and producer of the podcasts The Art World: What If…?!, Hope & Dread and In Other Words for Schwartzman& in New York. She has written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Monocle and Cultured magazine and was formerly the art market, news and business editor (Americas) for The Art Newspaper. Before that she worked for galleries including Anthony d’Offay and Hauser & Wirth.

Julia Halperin is an arts and culture journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world. She is a contributor to the New York Times, the Financial Times, and W magazine, among other publications. She also serves as editor at large of CULTURED magazine and a contributing editor to The Art Newspaper, where she writes a monthly column about changes and challenges in American art museums. From 2017 to 2022, she was executive editor of Artnet News.

Susan Unterberg is a New York based photographer and the Founder of Anonymous Was A Woman. She has had numerous one person shows, been represented by two galleries and now confines her practice to making artist books. She founded AWAW 30 years ago in 1986 to give unrestricted grants to mid-career women artists. Since then, AWAW has expanded and gives grants to environmental artists as well.