The editorial advisory committee, established in 2025, oversees Forge's editorial programs and helps Forge envision new ways to support Native writers.

Joseph M. Pierce (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, Cherokee Nation Citizen) is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and the Founding Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair (Duke University Press, 2025) and Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019). He has published work in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Latin American Research Review, and Art Journal, and in popular outlets including Hyperallergic, TruthOut, and Indian Country Today. With S.J. Norman (Wiradjuri), he is co-curator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds, and in 2024-2025 he was a Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). 

Lana Lopesi (Sāmoa) is a writer and academic from Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Currently she works as an Assistant Professor in the department of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. There, she teaches across her research areas of Pacific studies, Indigenous feminisms and contemporary art. Her research draws on Indigenous feminist thinking and focuses on Samoan diasporic subjectivity and specifically how Samoan moving image reveals distinct Samoan subjectivities made in relation. She is the author of False Divides, Bloody Woman, and Pacific Arts Aotearoa. Lana is co-editor of Towards a Grammar of Race: In Aotearoa New Zealand and Pacific Spaces: Translations and Transmutations.