Kristin Du Mez is an associate professor in History and Gender Studies at Calvin College. Her areas of specialty are women's history and American religious history. Her first book, A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism, was published with Oxford University Press in 2015. Her next book is a religious history of Hillary Rodham Clinton. In collaboration with her students, Du Mez has helped create local history walking tours with GR Walks, including a tour of East Grand Rapids' Ramona Park, a Riverwalk tour, a history of beer in Grand Rapids, and neighborhood tours on Roosevelt Park and Garfield Park. No stranger to the GGRWHC, Kristin has done several talk-backs after sponsored viewings of the film, Iron-Jawed Angels.

Amy Dunham Strand is Director of the Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Aquinas College. She has taught courses in composition, literature, women and environment, and women's political rhetoric and has co-directed the "Sister Story" oral history project on the lives of women living in religious community. Her first book, Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919 (Routledge 2009) was the result of her research in the intersection of ideas about gender and language in American literature and culture.  Always using historical context in her study of literature, language, and gender, she has published and presented on the the rhetoric of 19th century women's petitioning in the U.S., women's writing instruction in U.S. settlement houses, American dialect, and Catharine Sedgwick's writings.

By profession a literary scholar, Jo Ellyn Clarey co-edited a book titled Short Story Theory at a Crossroads (1989) before redirecting her path into the world of local women's history. For over twenty years she has searched out lost Grand Rapids women and forgotten events: among them, Emily Burton Ketchan and leaders of the early Michigan suffrage movement; the career of history-changing early attorney Elizabeth Eaglesfield; nineteenth-century women physicians; and 1890s African American women's clubs. She has served on the boards of the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council, the Grand Rapids Historical Society, and the Grand Rapids Historical Commission. Winner of the Baxter Award in local history, she has also coordinated programming on women's history for numerous institutions and academic conferences across the city, state, and nation.