Damarys Ocaña Perez is a New York-based writer and editor whose work has been published in magazines, websites, and newspapers including The Miami Herald, People, Parents, and The Guardian.com. She is the former editorial director of Latina magazine.

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is an associate professor of history at The New School, where she studies the politics and culture of the modern United States. The author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture, she also hosts the “Past Present” podcast.

Serhii Plokhy is the professor of history at Harvard University and the director of the university’s Ukrainian Research Institute. He is the author of numerous books, most recently, Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation and Chernobyl: The History of the Nuclear Catastrophe.

Bryan Pollard is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and former editor of the Cherokee Phoenix. He is currently the associate director of the Native American Journalists Association and a former John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Follow him on Twitter @cherokee_editor.

Crystal Ponti is a freelance writer from New England with a deep passion for exploring the intersection of history and folklore. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, A&E Real Crime, Washington Post, USA Today, and BBC, among others. Find her @HistoriumU, where she also co-hosts the monthly #FolkloreThursday event.

Kevin Powell, activist, writer, public speaker, is the author of numerous books, including his critically-acclaimed autobiography, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood. You can follow him on twitter, @kevin_powell, or email him, kevin@kevinpowell.net.

Jessica Prois is a freelance writer and editor based in New York. She's the founder and former executive editor of HuffPost Asian Voices, and a writer for NBC, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and New York Magazine.

Sarah Pruitt has been a frequent contributor to History.com since 2005, and is the author of Breaking History: Vanished! (Lyons Press, 2017), which chronicles some of history's most famous disappearances.

Willard Sterne Randall, author of The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America, won the National Magazine Award during a 17-year journalism career before graduate studies at Princeton. Author of six Founding Father biographies, he is professor emeritus of history at Champlain College.