Jasmine Guy is an Emmy Award?winning performer who began her career as a dancer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She was a star of A Different World, for which she won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards. She appeared in Spike Lee's School Daze, Eddie Murphy's Harlem Nights, and Alex Haley's Queen, and has starred more recently in The Vampire Diaries and Grey's Anatomy. She is the author of Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary.

Imani Guy Duckette is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied drama. She is a multidisciplinary artist who questions the world and herself through mixed media visual art, writing, and acting.