Yancy is a professor of philosophy at Emory University, with scholarship focusing in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy of the Black experience. He received his BA (with honors) in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, his first Master’s Degree from Yale University in Philosophy, and his second Master’s degree in African-American Studies from NYU, where he was awarded a distinguished fellowship. His PhD (with distinction) is in Philosophy from Duquesne University. 

He has authored, edited, or co-edited 17 books, and many more academic articles and book chapters. His first book, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Three of his edited books have received CHOICE outstanding academic book awards. He is co-Editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, and is an ex officio member of the American Philosophy Association Committee on Blacks in Philosophy.

Bettina Love is a Harvard Teaching and Research Fellow, social justice curriculum specialist, and University of Georgia education professor with extensive scholarship in ed theory and practice, critical media literacy and diversity and social justice education. Specific research intersects hip-hop feminism, hip hop-based education and black girlhood to understand, contextualize and deconstruct the formal and informal educational experiences of marginalized youth, be they queer, urban, African-American, female, male or a unification of these identities. She has been featured on TEDx, as well as written and co-written dozens of scholarly articles on innovative pedagogical practices through the use of non-traditional educational curricula.    
 

Harry Brod is professor of philosophy and humanities at the University of Northern Iowa, and joins St. Norbert College as the first ever semester-long Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Masculinity Studies.

Brod received his Ph.D in philosophy at the University of California-San Diego in 1981. He is the author of The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies, A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity, Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity, among others. His interests in research and teaching include: gender studies, Jewish studies, social and political theory, modern European thought, critical studies of masculinities, whitenesses and heterosexualities. Brod has served on the board of several organizations in his prolific career, including Humanities Iowa, American Men's Studies Association and the Iowa Regents Universities Men's Gender Violence Prevention Institute.

Brod has spoken and consulted at college campuses across the nation to thousands of students as a central component of gender violence prevention campaigns. His film on consent, Asking for It, is distributed by the reputable Media Education Foundation and is a widely used classroom resource.