José Carlos Diaz is the Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art at the Seattle Art Museum(SAM). Diaz has held positions at the Andy Warhol Museum, The Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Tate Liverpool, and the Liverpool Biennial. He received a BA in art history from San Francisco State University and MA in cultural history from the University of Liverpool. In 2018 Diaz was a Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Association of Art Museum Curators.

Jamilee Lacy is an art museum leader, curator, and writer committed to contemporart art and artists. As of march 2023, she is the Executive Director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, after serving as the inaugural Director and Chief Curator of Providence College Galleries. Lacy is a commissioning curator for the Trustees' Art & Landscape program, organizing the traveling public art installation Counterculture by Rose B. Simpson. She co-founded the Interlace Grant Fund and My HomeCourt, serving on their boards and curating public art projects, and has worked at institutions such as Northwestern University, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and DOX Center in Prague. Lacy holds a dual-degree BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA from Northwestern University, and was a Class of 2022 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.