Congressman John Lewis was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end segregation. Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks, and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. He is co-author of the first comics work ever to win the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel memoir trilogy MARCH, written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell. He is also the recipient of numerous awards from national and international institutions including the Lincoln Medal, the John F. Kennedy "Profile in Courage" Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NAACP Spingarn Medal, among many others. He lives in Atlanta, GA.

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing comics as an Arkansas teenager in 1992.

His work includes the new graphic novel FALL THROUGH and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME, as well as SAVE IT FOR LATER, civil rights icon John Lewis' MARCH trilogy and its follow-up RUN, viral comics essay "About Face", and graphic novels COME AGAIN, TWO DEAD, ANY EMPIRE, and SWALLOW ME WHOLE. He has published nonfiction comics and writing for The Washington Post, The Nib, Popula, Booklist, CNN, and The Weather Channel.

Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and the CXC Transformative Work Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Free Speech TV.

He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

ANDREW AYDIN is a National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author. Aydin is creator and co-author of the graphic memoir series, MARCH, which chronicles the life of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, as well as the sequel, RUN. Co-authored with Rep. Lewis and illustrated by Nate Powell, MARCH is the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award. Aydin is also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, three Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, the Illinois Literary Heritage Award, and the Walter Dean Myers Book Award, among many others.

Aydin is a Creator-in-Residence at the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) at Georgia State University in Atlanta and formerly served as Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Rep. Lewis in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Trinity College in Hartford and Georgetown University in Washington, Aydin wrote his master’s thesis on the history and impact of Martin Luther King & The Montgomery Story, establishing much of what we know about the comic today. Aydin often participates in reading programs with incarcerated youth, speaks at schools and universities, and has appeared as a guest on the Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, NPR, CNN, PBS, the BBC and many other programs and networks.