Sheryl Lightfoot (Anishinaabe, Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe) is Canada Research Chair of Global Indigenous Rights and Politics at The University of British Columbia, where she holds academic appointments in both Political Science, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and Indigenous Studies. She is also currently serving as Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Affairs at The University of British Columbia. Her most recent book is Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution (Routledge Press, 2016).

David B. MacDonald is a mixed-race political science professor from Treaty 4 lands in Regina, Saskatchewan, with Trinidad Indian and Scottish ancestry. He is a full professor at the University of Guelph. His most recent books are The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions, co-edited with F.A. Stengel and D. Nabers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).