Dr Marcella Daye 
Dr Marcella Daye is an academic researcher at the University of Northampton with a PhD in Tourism Marketing and an MSc with Distinction in Tourism Planning and Development from the University of Surrey. Marcella began her career as a radio journalist. Then, she worked as a tourism practitioner for ten years in public relations and marketing at the Jamaica Tourist Board. Marcella’s focal academic research interests are in place branding and destination image, and she sits on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed journals, Annals of Tourism Research and Tourism Planning and Development. A scholar-activist for Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Marcella is Co/Chair for the race equality network at the University of Northampton, known as the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM).) In 2022, she was commissioned as a consultant on the EU EXPERIENCE project to examine barriers to ethnic minority participation in domestic tourism in the UK. Marcella also sits on the Board of the EDI Committee of the Chartered Institute of Business Schools (CABS). She also serves on the Advisory Board as the EDI lead for Healthwatch Northamptonshire as well as on the county’s Integrated Care Board’s Race Health Inequalities Working Group. This year, Marcella was elected to serve on the Council of Governors for the Northamptonshire Health Foundation Trust.
Nelson Cummins 
Nelson Cummins is the Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire at Glasgow Museums. In the role he is responsible for exploring how the histories and legacies of transatlantic slavery and the British Empire impact Glasgow Museums and the wider city of Glasgow.
Nelson was one of the project leads on Glasgow-City of Empire, a permanent display opened in November that examines the legacies of colonialism and how they have shaped Glasgow. The display opens up conversations about slavery, exploitation, oppression, resilience, and resistance. Drawing on the collections of Glasgow Life Museums, the display combines historic and contemporary objects to explore how we can better address the histories and legacies of transatlantic slavery and British colonialism.
Previously, Nelson worked as the Community and Campaigns Officer at the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER), where he was responsible for co-ordinating their work on Black History, including co-ordinating programming for Black History Month Scotland in 2021 and 2022.
Dr Stephen Mullen
Stephen Mullen is an alumnus of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, completing a PhD at the latter institution in 2015. Stephen’s postdoctoral work focused on the social and economic histories and consequences of chattel slavery in a British-Atlantic framework. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher (2015-17) on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project '. Stephen was the principal researcher and co-author of the report (2017-18), which led to the sector-leading Reparative Justice strategy. Between 2019-22, Mullen was commissioned by Glasgow City Council to lead an audit of the city of Glasgow’s historic connections with Atlantic slavery. The ‘Glasgow Slavery Audit’ assessed the city’s slavery legacies inbuilt heritage (especially statues, street names, and buildings), in the process addressing long-term debates on how Glasgow should recognise its long historic connections with Atlantic slavery. On 31 March 2022, Glasgow City Council formally apologised for the city’s involvement with transatlantic slavery – the first-ever apology of its type on behalf of a Scottish institution or city. Stephen was a Co-Investigator on the Historic Environment Scotland-funded project (2022-24), which assessed Scotland’s most iconic sites in state care and the legacies of colonialism. His first monograph, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838 (2022) was published by University of London Press in the Royal Historical 麻豆社区/Institute of Historical Research flagship New Historical Perspectives series. As of 1 August 2023, Stephen is a Lecturer in History (Legacies of Atlantic Slavery), a cross-centre appointment between and the at the University of Glasgow.