Samantha Ege is an award-winning musicologist and internationally recognized concert pianist. She is the author of South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene (2024). Her albums spotlight underrepresented composers, and encompass collaborations with Odaline de la Martinez, Castle of our Skins, and the BBC Philharmonic. Dr Alexandra Kori Hill is a musicologist, editor, and freelance writer. She specializes in American culture, Black composers, and music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kori is the assistant editor for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, powered by American Composers Forum, and serves as the 2025–2026 Provostal Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Sirp, and program notes for major American orchestras.