Born in Jamaica, Jacqueline Bishop is a writer and visual artist. Her current project seeks to forefront the voices and lived experiences of enslaved Caribbean women by culling their words and utilizing these words as the basis of a series of large embroidery that would give autonomy and voice back to these women.

Elena Langer is composer whose works have been performed at Zurich Opera, Carnegie Hall, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Opera National du Rhin, Welsh National Opera, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hong Kong Academy of Arts and the Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden.

Sandra Rebok is a historian of science, author, speaker and scientific consultant whose research focuses on the globalization of science, intellectual networks and transnational scientific collaborations during the 19th century.