Stephanie Lawton is a Ph.D candidate in UVA's Corcoran Department of History. Her field of specialty is 19th century U.S. history and political culture. Her dissertation, currently in progress, examines the function of the Greco-Roman Classics in the funeral ceremonies for American presidents from 1799 to 1885. She is a 2017-2018 at both the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon and at the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History.

Marlene L. Daut has a B.A. in English and French from Loyola Marymount University, and she earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. She is currently Professor of African Diaspora Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute and the Program in American Studies at the University of Virginia. Before joining the faculty of UVA, Daut was Associate professor of English and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University.

Arin Bennett is a visualization specialist focused on the display, manipulation, and interaction of three-dimensional data using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies.

Pitti is the Director of the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative (SNAC), University of Virginia Library; and chair of the International Council on Archives Expert Group on Archival Description (ICA EGAD). From 1997 until 2017, Pitt served as the Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH).