Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian, artist, and curator. She is the editor of Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance and Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021, among others. She is the General Editor of The Harvard History of Ukrainian Art book series. She serves as President-Elect of the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture and is the Founder of Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network. She has published texts in leading academic journals and media outlets, and holds a PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

Oksana Yakushko, PhD, is a professor and Director of the Professional Psychology doctoral program at George Washington University, DC. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst. Her scholarly work has focused on the history of psychology, immigration, and culture. Her work on colonial epistemologies in psychology has focused on historic and present-day eugenic and scientistic practices, denials of history, scientific violence, and ideological erasures. As a member of the Ukrainian diaspora, she publishes and collaborates with numerous scholars and activists in response to Russia's war against Ukraine.

Mykola Riabchuk is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies in Kyiv and a visiting lecturer at the University of Warsaw. He penned a dozen books translated into Polish, French, German, Serbian, and Hungarian, and was distinguished with several awards, most notably the Antonovych Prize, the “Bene merito” medal of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jerzy Giedroyc Prize, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in Arts and Literature. His latest books are Eastern Europe since 1989 and At the Fence of Metternich’s Garden.