Glenn Scott is one of the founding members of People's History in Texas. In her capacity as Board Chair for PHIT, she recruits scholars, civic leaders and Texas history enthusiasts to support the mission of PHIT. More recently, she has been actively involved in organizational development for PHIT. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Texas Rural Communities, Inc. a non-profit that provides loans to help strengthen rural communities. She also serves on the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas board and is the author of articles on adult education and training materials for the Texas Federation of Teachers and the National Labor College. Glenn Scott lives in Austin.

Teresa Palomo Acosta is an independent scholar, writer and poet. She is co-author, with the late scholar Ruthe Winegarten, of Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History (UT Press, 2003). The book earned the 2003 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award from the Texas Historical Commission. Acosta is the K-12 Student Programs Coordinator for the Texas State Historical Association and the Center for American History at UT Austin. A specialist in Mexican American history in Texas, she wrote 80 articles for the New Handbook of Texas, published in 1995. Acosta lives in Austin.

Cynthia Beeman is an independent scholar who has worked on several Texas history projects since the 1970s. A resident of Austin, Cynthia Beeman retired in 2007 after 21 years at the Texas Historical Commission, where she served as Coordinator of the State Marker Program and Director of the History Programs Division. Beeman holds a Bachelor's degree in History from Texas Tech University. She is co-author (with Dan K. Utley) of History Ahead: Stories Beyond the Roadside Markers of Texas, forthcoming from Texas A&M University Press (estimated publication date early 2010.)

Dr. George Green founded the Texas Labor Archives at the University of Texas, Arlington, and is the author of The Establishment in Texas Politics, the Primitive Years 1938-57. He was the president of the Texas State Historical Association in 2004. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas in 1961. He has been a Professor of History at the University of Texas, Arlington since 1967. Dr. Green lives in Arlington.

Thad Sitton is an independent historian and writer who lives in Austin, Texas. He is a three-time winner of the Texas Historical Commission's T. R. Fehrenbach Award for the best book of the year. He has written a dozen books, including Freedom Colonies, published in 2005, Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942, and Harder than Hardscrabble, an oral history of farming life in the Texas Hill Country.