Dr. Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. Her first book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020) —argues that African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression, agency, and identity in the first half of the twentieth century. She is a leader in the field of Digital Humanities and is co-PI of Black Beyond Data.

Dr. Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives.

Sayeed Choudhury is is the Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) at Carnegie Mellon Libraries and an affiliated faculty member of the Block Center for Technology and Society as well as the Executive Director of the Open Forum for AI. He is a Co-Investigator of Black Beyond Data.

Dr. Webb is the Assistant Director of LifexCode and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities (JHU). She recently founded the We Live Language (WLL) lab within Black Beyond Data, a Computational Humanities and Social Sciences ecosystem. The WLL lab is centered on the writings and spoken word of Afro-diasporic poets, authors, and philosophers, exploring the intricate relationship between language and power.

Jon Baynes is Software Research Engineer for LifexCode and the founder of EINDEVR.