Andrea Pippins is an illustrator and author who has a passion for creating images that reflect what she wants to see in art, media, and design. Andrea is the author of: I Love My Hair, a coloring book featuring her illustrations celebrating various hairstyles and texture; Becoming Me, an interactive journal for young women to color, doodle, and brainstorm their way to a creative life; and We Inspire Me, a collection of essays, interviews, and advice on cultivating and  empowering one's own creative community. She also illustrated Young Gifted and Black and Step Into Your Power. Her most recent publications is called, Who Will You Be?, were Andrea writes a book about all of the hopes and dreams a mother has for her newborn child.  Andrea is based in Stockholm, Sweden with her husband and two children.

Marcus J. Moore is an award-winning music journalist, senior editor, curator, pundit, budding music supervisor and author of The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America. The book is being published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, on October 13, 2020. 

Marcus is also a contributing writer with The Nation and a contributing editor with Bandcamp Daily. His coverage of soul, jazz, hip-hop, and rock can be found at The New York Times, Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, NPR, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic, among many other outlets. He currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya with his wife.