Terry Kershaw is professor and Head of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Kershaw has training in Black Studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with both a BA and MA in Black Studies. Kershaw's areas of specialization are social organization, theory, and methods. His research interests include African American leadership, theories of race and racism, the intersection of race, gender, and class, Africana Studies paradigms, and various approaches to scholar-activist research. He has published in leading Black Studies Journals and in edited collections by leading scholars in the field of Black Studies. He has been quoted in various newspapers and magazines on such topics as African American leadership, African American families, race and education, and social theory. He has a long and successful history in leading academic units at a number of institutions and has been awarded over $250,000 in grants. He was Chair of Sociology and Director of Black Studies at the College of Wooster,  Director of African and African American Studies at Antioch College, Director of Black Studies, Director of Women Studies, Chair of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director of the Race and Social Policy Research Center at Virginia Tech. He is directly responsible for the development of a graduate program in Africana Studies at Virginia Tech and, because of his success there, was recruited to develop a MA and PhD program in Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He has served on numerous community boards, professional boards, and editorial boards. Among them are the Journal of Black Studies as co-editor, The Western Journal of Black Studies as assistant editor, the International Journal of Africana Studies as editor and Every Women's House (A Battered Women's Shelter).

Dr. Alfred Young is a Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.  Dr. Young has published a monograph, journal articles, encyclopedia entries, essays and most recently co-authored, Africana Studies: Past Present and Future.  His long and active career epitomizes the motto of NCBS Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility. During his tenure at GSU, he has created and served as Director of the African and African American Studies Program, and introduced the Model Organization of African Unity (now African Union) to Georgia Southern University. To facilitate the development of Africana/Black Studies at GSU, he has successfully won numerous grants and awards, including a $126,374 grant from the US Department of Education, International Studies and Foreign Language Program.  Most recently, he co-authored a NCBS Ford grant for $237,000, 2007 to 2010.  During the 2010 NCBS conference, Professor Young was instrumental in instituting, along with the Community Engagement Committee, a number of community engagement projects.  For example, the Post-Katrina Recovery Project and a National Book Drive for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9^th Ward of New Orleans. Professor Young's fundraising and managerial skills have served NCBS well since his election as Treasurer in 1998. Most significantly, during his tenure as treasurer of NCBS, NCBS' budget has grown steadily and consistently due to his fiscal discipline and oversight.