Tomashi Jackson (born 1980 in Houston, Texas) was raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2016, her Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012, her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2010, and is a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Jackson's work has been included in recent solo exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Parrish Art Museum, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis and Survival at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge (2025), Power of the People: Art and Democracy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2024), Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2023), Multiplicity at the Frist Art Museum (2023), Working Thought at the Carnegie Museum of Art (2022), Off the Record at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2021), and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Jackson was the recipient of the Rappaport Prize in 2023, the Roy R. Neuberger Prize in 2022, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2020. Jackson's artworks are in numerous museum collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Jackson will be in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva, FL in 2025 and will have a solo exhibition at Tilton Gallery, New York in early 2026. Jackson lives and works in Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Gerald Horne is an American historian who holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. Horne has published dozens of books including a pathbreaking account of slavery & Jim Crow in Texas and has written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University.

Nia Evans is the Executive Director of the Boston Ujima Project, Inc. Her educational background is in the areas of labor relations, education leadership, and policy. Her advocacy includes a focus on eliminating barriers between analysts and people with lived experiences as well as increasing acknowledgment of the value of diverse types of expertise in policy. She is a co-creator, along with artist Tomashi Jackson, of Frames Debate Project, a multimedia policy debate project that explores the intersection between drug policy, mental health services, and incarceration in the state of Massachusetts.

Ms. Evans has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Master of Arts in Education Leadership, with a course of study in Leadership, Policy, and Politics from Teachers College at Columbia University. She also studied abroad at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where she focused on International Labor Relations.