Tushara Bindu Gude received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and served as associate curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Kimberly Masteller is the Jeanne McCray Beals Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Veronica (Ronnie) J. McDavid has been collecting Indian and Colonial silver since 2007.

Harish K. Patel, originally from Gujarat, India, has been collecting Indian classical art since 1988 and began collecting silver from India in September 2009.

Katherine Anne Paul is the lead curator and Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Richard A. Pegg is the director and curator of Asian Art for the MacLean Collection.

Romita Ray is associate professor of Art History at Syracuse University.

Praveena Sundarraj is the founder of Dryft Coffee and Raani Coffee, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Laura C. Woodard, librarian and archivist, has been at the Birmingham Museum of Art since 2018.