Frank Abe

Abe is the lead author of a new graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. He won an American Book Award for JOHN OKADA: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, and made an award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience and the Constitution.

Erin Aoyama

Aoyama is a Ph.D. candidate at Brown University, a researcher at the HMWF, and a Heart Mountain descendant. She studies the experience of Japanese Americans within a broader context of American racial studies, examined through the lens of solidarity history.

Dr. Mary Keller

A member of the American and Diaspora Studies faculty at the University of Wyoming, Keller examines the relationship of religious lives to struggles for meaning and power, and a co-organizer of the Apsáalooke's Return to Foretop's Father pipe ceremony and ascent.

Dr. Karen Korematsu

Dr. Korematsu is the Founder and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute. The institute seeks to collaborate with education partners, and to create a national resource center for Asian Pacific American history and civic education.

Dr. Amy McKinney

A history professor at Northwest College, McKinney is an expert in Wyoming history and life at Heart Mountain and has also taught high school history in Wyoming. She is the descendant of a Montana Homesteader.

Sam Mihara

A former child incarceree at Heart Mountain who became a scientist for Boeing, he now speaks worldwide about the incarceration. He received the Paul A. Gagnon Prize from the National Council on History Education in 2018.

Dr. Cally Steussy

Dr. Steussy is Heart Mountain's museum manager. She recently completed her Ph.D. in anthropology at Indiana University. Her dissertation, about Heart Mountain, is titled Takamine o se ni: Assessing relationships to the Wyoming landscape during the World War II Nikkei Incarceration through Material Cultural and Literature.

Dr. Gordon C. Nagayama Hall

He is a retired professor of Psychology in the clinical psychology program at the University of Oregon. His paternal grandparents emigrated to the U.S. from England and his maternal grandparents emigrated to the U.S.from Japan in the early 1900s. His mother and her family were incarcerated at Poston, Arizona during World War II because they were Japanese Americans. His research interests are in culture and mental health with a particular interest in Asian Americans.

Krist Jessup, M.A.

Jessup is the Heart Mountain's research and editing manager. Prior to this role, he worked at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has an M.A. in History from the University of Wyoming.

Noel Two Leggins

Two Leggins' Crow Indian name is Ootchiashbaaiase, “Watcher of the Night,” but on the agency rolls he is "Noel Two Leggins." He is a proud enrolled member of the Crow (Apsáalooke) Tribe, member of the greasy mouth clan, child of the whistling water clan, lives among the river Crow band along the Little Big Horn located in the black lodge district, member of the Night Hawk Society, devout sundancer of the Crow-Shoshone Sundance, descendant of Chief Two Leggins, Chief Pretty Eagle and Big Medicine who were leaders and great spiritual individuals among the Crow people.

Dr. Keith Edgerton

Keith Edgerton currently teaches modern American history, environmental history, Montana history, and the history of Vietnam at Montana State University-Billings where he is a professor of history and the chair of the history department. He has written two books, his most recent one being Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary published by the University of Washington Press.