2006 Participants
- Peter Almond, Beacon Pictures/The Forever Free Project
- Orlando Bagwell, director
- Barbara Chase-Riboud, Author and Artist,
- David W. Blight, Yale University
- Katrina Browne, director, Traces of Trade
- Lonnie G. Bunch III, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Jane Clark Chermayeff, Jane Clark Chermayeff Associates, LLC
- Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
- Paulla Ebron, Stanford University
- Cheryl Finley, Cornell University
- John E. Fleming, Cincinnati Museum Center
- Gillian Forrester, Yale Center for British Art
- Michel Giraud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
- Charlie Haffner, Freetong Players International Theatre Group
- Mari Hareide, Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO
- Oliver Horton, George Washington University
- Jean Howson, The RBA Group, African Burial Ground Project,
- Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Boston College
- Joseph Opala, James Madison University
- Gert Oostindie, KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden
- Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop
- Tony Tibbles, National Museums Liverpool
- John Michael Vlach, The George Washington University,
- Glen Willemsen, National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee)
- Kevin Willmott, University of Kansas