Howard Dotson, Deborah Willis, MacArthur Fellow and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University,Claudell Cleare, Chief of Staff to NY State Senator, Bill Perkins, Mary Yearwood, Curator, Photographs and Prints Division Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Omawale Clay, Special Assistant to NY State Senator, Bill Perkins.