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Jenny Sealey is the CEO and Artistic Director at Graeae Theatre in London, UK, the country’s flagship disabled-led theatre company. She has been the Artistic Director at the theatre since 1997. Her work has involved the development of a new theatrical language, experimenting with bilingual British Sign Language (BSL) and English, prerecorded BSL, creative captioning, and in-ear live audio description. After developing a hearing impairment as a child, Jenny was encouraged to pursue dancing.

Joy James is a professor at Williams College.

Glen Coulthard is a member of Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He co-founded the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a decolonial, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories).

Charles Taylor is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. From 1976-1978, he held the Chichele Chair at Oxford University before returning to Canada to participate in the Quebec referendum campaign of 1979-1980.

Martha Nussbaum is a renowned legal academic known for her work on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts. She was trained as a classicist at Harvard University and is an expert on Aristotle. At the time of her Dunning Trust lecture, she was professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago. She has also taught at Brown, Harvard, and Oxford Universities.

Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His research has examined applied ethics, including bioethics and the ethics of war, animal ethics, and nationalism. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (2002) and Killing in War (2009), and a sequel to his 2002 book, The Ethics of Killing: Self-Defense, War, and Punishment (2020). He began his doctoral work at Oxford before finishing it at Cambridge.

Christopher Lebron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, where he specializes in political philosophy, social theory, the philosophy of race and democratic ethics.

Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of nineteen single-authored books and the editor or co-editor of seven edited collections. She has also published articles and op-ed pieces in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

George V. Ferguson was the editor of the Montreal Star and a radio commentator on international affairs. During the First World War, he served in France.