Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies and Chair of Political Science at Vassar College N.Y..Michael J. Shapiro is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa.Barbara Benish is a California-born artist and writer, who divides her studio time between the U.S. and Czechia.Enrique Martinez Leal is a visual artist and Associate Professor of Print Media at the Art Department of the University of California in Santa Cruz.