Brienne is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She holds certificates in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities. Her work utilizes Black feminisms, queer, and affect theories as centering frameworks to study the intimate world-building and meaning-making fans create from Black popular culture productions on social media platforms.

Dr. Barner is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. She is an interdisciplinary critical and cultural communications scholar with research interests in Black podcasts, digital and Black feminism, digital media, and social media as a tool for social justice and activism and the representation of marginalized people, specifically Black girls and women, in popular culture and media.

Andrew is an undergraduate senior and McNair Scholar in the Digital Communication & Media specialization at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Communication program. With a minor in rhetoric, he is interested in research centering at the crossroads of digital spaces, public culture, and the investigation of rhetoric that uphold the marginalization of different intersections within society.

Abigail is a Fellow at the Diaspora Solidarities Lab working on the Taller Entre Aguas Criadas Project. She is a third-year Ph.D. student in Communication at the University of Maryland, earning graduate certificates in Digital Humanities and Caribbean/Latinx Studies. Her research focuses on Puerto Rican/Caribbean/Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Black Digital Humanities, and Intercultural Communication. Particularly, she explores how Bomba and Plena, two Afro-Puerto Rican genres and forms of resistance function as a form of Black Technological Creativity.