Isabel Araiza is an associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, where she teaches in the Mexican American and women and gender studies programs.

Mehrsa Baradaran is a law professor at the University of California’s Irvine School of Law.

Van C. Tran is a professor of sociology at CUNY who studies the integration of immigrants and their children, ethnic and racial categories, diversity and intergroup relations, neighborhood gentrification, and urban poverty and social inequality.

Adriana Kugler is a professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Her research interests include labor markets and policy evaluation in developed and developing countries. She studies labor regulations, unemployment and immigration, and has authored articles on public health insurance and the effects of TRAP (Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers) laws on women’s employment prospects.

Jennifer L. Eberhardt is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.

Jamilah King is the deputy inequality editor at BuzzFeed News. Previously, she was a race and justice reporter at Mother Jones and hosted the weekly Mother Jones podcast on national politics.