Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick is an artist, curator, educator, and writer from Mōkapu, Kailua, Koʻolaupoko. Raised in a matriarchy on the windward side of Oʻahu, his work is guided by the multigenerational efforts of queer folk and Native Hawaiian women—especially his mother, aunties, and maternal grandmother—who have devoted their lives to art, culture, education, healing, and community in Hawaiʻi. Drew is a founding member of grassroots film initiative kekahi wahi (2020–) along with filmmaker Sancia Miala Shiba Nash. kekahi wahi is committed to documenting transformations across the Hawaiian archipelago and sharing stories of the greater Pacific through time-based media.

Lana Lopesi (Sāmoa) is a writer and academic from Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Currently she works as an Assistant Professor in the department of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies, at the University of Oregon. There she teaches across her research areas of Pacific studies, Indigenous feminisms and contemporary art. Her research draws on Indigenous feminist thinking and focuses on Samoan diasporic subjectivity and specifically how Samoan moving image reveals distinct Samoan subjectivities made in relation. She is the author of False Divides, Bloody Woman, and Pacific Arts Aotearoa. Lana is co-editor of Towards a Grammar of Race: In Aotearoa New Zealand and Pacific Spaces: Translations and Transmutations.