Mark LeVine is Professor of History at UC Irvine, a Guggenheim Fellow, multi-award-winning musician, film producer, journalist, and cofounder of both the Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change at UC Irvine and Kakuma Sound.

Bryan Reynolds is Distinguished Professor and Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at UC Irvine, Artistic Director of the Amsterdam-based Transversal Theater Company, a director of theater, a performer, and a playwright. He has published over a dozen books and his plays and musicals have been produced at seventy-five venues in twenty-two countries.