Cathy N. Davidson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, co-founder of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University

David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of African-American Studies and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California at Irvine

Jeffrey Schnapp, Director of the Stanford University Humanities Lab and Rosina Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature, Stanford University

Ruzena Bajcsy, Director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley

Tara McPherson, Editor, Vectors, and Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California