Eric Marcus is the founder and host of the Making Gay History podcast and archive. The Making Gay History podcast uses Marcus’s archive of oral histories to highlight intimate, personal portraits of LGBTQ civil rights movement members. This community-centered oral history project aims to highlight voices and stories that have been marginalized and hidden from mainstream presentations of history. Additionally, Marcus is co-producer of the Those Who Were There Podcast, which uses oral histories from Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies to share first-hand testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses.  

Sady Sullivan is an oral historian with 15+ years experience building community-engaging oral history projects. Sady created Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, an award-winning oral history project, racial justice dialogue series, and digital humanities site exploring mixed-heritage identity. Sady’s oral history interviews are used as primary sources for K-12 curricula, walking tours, podcasts, books, including Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan, and public history exhibitions at Brooklyn Historical Society (now known as the Center for Brooklyn History), New-York Historical Society, El Museo del Barrio, and Brooklyn Navy Yard BLDG92. She has experience reviving dormant oral history programs and building collaborations between institutions and communities to create community-based projects. Sady practices Somatics with fellow White Racial Justice Organizers (generative somatics) for the sake of our collective liberation. She is exploring ways to bring more sound and movement to her oral history work.

Steven Sielaff is the Senior Editor and Collection Manager of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History (BUIOH) which currently encompasses over 300 unique projects and over 7000 interviews. He oversees the technical aspects of processing, preserving, and disseminating the oral history collection. Starting January 2023, he will also take on the role of Assistant Director of the Oral History Association when Baylor University becomes the new institutional home of the organization. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Oral History Association’s annual journal, Sound Historian and serves as the Managing Editor for the H-OralHist listserv.