Alex Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is currently senior editor of archipelagos journal. He has been a prolific producer and contributing team member of many recognized digital humanities projects and scholarly software including, Torn Apart/Separados, In The Same Boats, and more recently, (Un)Silencing Slavery.

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University and author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Penn Press, 2022). She is the Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, a PI on Black BeyondData, and on the Black Press Research Collective with Kim Gallon and Alexandre White. She is co-PI on the Diaspora Solidarities Lab a virtual Black feminist pedagogies and practice lab.

Nadejda I. Webb (she/her/they) Dr. Nadejda I. Webb is the Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins. She is also the Vice Chair of the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus. She earned a joint Ph.D. in English and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. in English Language and Literature from CUNY Hunter College.

Alexandre White is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine. He is the PI of Underwriting Souls, a project to digitize the archives of Lloyd’s, the insurance market pertaining to the trans-Atlantic slavery. In addition to his role as faculty, he is also the Associate Director for the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine.