Ian Bethell-Bennett is a professor of English, adjunct in the School of Social Sciences, and former dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas. He participated in National Exhibition 7, NE8, NE9, NE 10 as well as in 2018 Double Dutch Hot Water with Plastico Fantastico, and Evolution of the Arc. He has co-edited Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge, 2020) with Sophia Rolle and Jessica Minnis and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Minnis, Rolle and Fevzi Okuus.

Jessica Minnis is a professor of Sociology, University of The Bahamas. She co-edited the book Junkanoo and Religion (Media Enterprises, 2002), co-edited with Sophia Rolle and Ian Bethell-Bennett Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge 2020), and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Rolle, Bethell-Bennett.