Oluremi C. Onabanjo is The Peter Schub Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where she manages the Museum's holdings of over 35,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. Her projects currently on view at MoMA include Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination and A Little Gallery of the Photo-Secession. The inaugural recipient of the Vilcek Prize in Curatorial Work (2025) and a 2024 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow, Onabanjo sits on the Photography Advisory Board for the Istanbul Modern. She holds a PhD in Art History from Columbia University.

Brent Edwards teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard, 2003) and, most recently, Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music, the co-written autobiography of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill (Knopf, 2023), which was awarded a 2024 American Book Award and a 2024 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year Award for Biography or Autobiography.