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Brian R. Jacobson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and a member of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate program. He is a graduate of the Master's program in Comparative Media Studies (CMS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Appalachian State University. Brian is a 2008-2009 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar. In 2007 he was a member of the Visual Culture research field of the Social Science Research Council's inaugural Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship.

Navajo artist Melanie Yazzie graduated from Arizona State University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in studio arts and entered graduate school at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She pursued printmaking with a passion becoming a beginning, advanced and intermediate printmaking instructor at CU to pay for school. After receiving her master of fine arts degree in printmaking in 1993, Yazzie started to feel the pull on her heartstrings from the reservation. She wanted to live in a place between Colorado and the Navajo Nation. So she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and became an art instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Yazzie is now back at the University of Colorado, where she is an associate professor of art. She's exhibited her work in New Zealand, France, Russia, Canada, Bulgaria, Northern Ireland and South Africa.

Janine Pease is a renowned American Indian educator and advocate. She was the founding president of the Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency Montana, a past president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, a director of the American Indian College Fund, and was appointed by President Clinton to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. She was also a trustee of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Janine Pease is a Crow and Hidatsa Indian, enrolled as a Crow.

David Goodman is managing editor of the Boston Community Reporters Project and has worked as a reporter and producer in public and non-commercial media for 20 years, including 16 years as a reporter for the Pacifica Network. His other assignments have included work for the BBC, NPR and the National Radio Project.