John O’Neal was the artistic director of Junebug Productions and the instigator of the Color Line Project. He was a Field Secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and worked as an organizer with the United Church of Christ Committee for Racial Justice. His work as a writer, performer, and community activist led him to found and organize the collaborative nature of the Color Line Project. He was a leading proponent of the view that “politics” and “art” are complementary, not opposing, terms.

Mark Fields was the director of the Glassboro Center for the Arts and was an integral component of the team of faculty and staff at Rowan University, which provided the local contacts and logistical and administrative support for the Color Line Project until his departure in 2001.

William Carrigan is a Professor of History at Rowan University and served as co-director of the Color Line Project. A native Texan, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. In 1999, he earned his Ph.D. in American history from Emory University and joined the faculty in the Department of History at Rowan. At Rowan, Professor Carrigan has taught over 100 courses and thousands of students on such topics as the Civil War and Reconstruction, the American West, and the History of New Jersey. He is the author or editor of numerous scholarly articles and four books, including The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2004), winner of the Richard Wentworth Prize. Professor Carrigan's research has been cited widely in the news media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, and the Houston Chronicle.

Corann Okorodudu was a full Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of African American Studies at Rowan University. She served as a co-director of the Color Line Project. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development from Harvard University. She served as Coordinator of Women’s Studies, Coordinator of the New Jersey Project “Integrating the Scholarship on Gender, Ethnicity, and Class”, and was the Interim Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rowan University.

Gary Hunter was an Associate Professor of History at Rowan University. He specialized in African American History and the history of New Jersey. He wrote and published on the history of the Civil Rights Movement and was the author of Neighborhoods of Color: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey, 1630-1998.