Stella Flores is an associate professor of higher education and public policy at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is also director of research and strategy for the Education Research Center. She studies the impact of state and federal policies on low-income and underrepresented college students, especially immigrant and English learner students.

Patricia Gándara is a research professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is executive director of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges and a professor of higher education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Valerie Lundy-Wagner is assistant vice chancellor of research and data at California Community Colleges.