Glen Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and Associate Professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory in 2014/15 and the Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book in 2016. In addition, Coulthard has written and published numerous articles and chapters in the areas of Indigenous thought and politics, contemporary political theory and radical social and political thought. He is a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a decolonial, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories).

Carrie Jenkins is an author and philosophy professor who lives and works on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations. Jenkins’s first novel, Victoria Sees It, was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House Canada, and has been shortlisted for the Frye Academy Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her non-fiction books include What Love Is and What It Could Be (Basic Books, 2017) and Sad Love: Romance and the Search For Meaning (Polity, 2022).