is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Community College Leadership Program in the Department of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University.

is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Senior Research Associate of the Office of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research.

is Professor and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He previously served as Vice President and Administration at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Director of Social Justice and Professional Development for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), as well as Executive Director and Chief Research Scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund.

is an Assistant Professor of Policy Studies in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.