Vaishali Mamgain is the director of the University of Southern Maine’s Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion, a program that offers training on the use of compassion to undo systematic oppression and racism. The center applies neuroscience research that shows long-lasting neural patterns of self-compassion and engagement.

Randall Akee is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies at UCLA.

Trevon Logan is a professor of economics and the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University.

Azzeddine Azzam is a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Humberto Barreto is a professor of economics and management at DePauw University.

Glenn Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and a professor of economics at Brown University.

Maria Marta Ferreyra (fuh-RAY-ruh) is a senior economist at the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Bank.