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John Surico is a freelance journalist who has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, and New York Magazine's Curbed. He teaches undergraduate reporting on cities at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and serves as the Senior Fellow for Climate and Opportunity at the Center for an Urban Future.

Taylor Dolven is a reporter at The Boston Globe where she focuses on transportation and its intersection with climate change and economic inequality.

Reggie Ramos is the Executive Director of Transportation for Massachusetts, a coalition of community based and non-profit organizations advocating for just and equitable transportation across the Commonwealth.

Tulika Bose, Ph.D., is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently serving as the Deputy U.S. CMS Software & Computing Operations Program Manager. She served a two-year term (2017-2019) as the Physics Co-coordinator for the CMS experiment at CERN, and before that, she served as the CMS Trigger Co-coordinator (2014-2016).

From the Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners .....

Historian who writes and lectures about a range of topics including Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the Founding Fathers, visual culture, and the history of Rock and Roll.

Ted Landsmark has been a civic planner, civil rights and equity advocate, higher education administrator, arts and culture researcher, and community-engaged social activist in Boston and nationally. He serves on the leadership committee of the Northeastern University Faculty Senate.

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment at the University of Kansas.

Whitney Demetrius is the Director of Fair Housing and Municipal Engagement at Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) where she has worked for over five years. She previously worked as the Deputy Director of the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston.

Dr. Dixson is the Executive Director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative, and a Professor of Educational Leadership Studies. Her research primarily focuses on how race, class and gender intersect and impact educational equity in urban schooling contexts. She locates her research within two theoretical frameworks: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Black feminist theories.

James Alison is a Catholic theologian, priest and author. His principal claim to fame is as one of those who has done most to bring the work of the great French thinker René Girard to a wider public. In addition, he is known for his firm but patient insistence on truthfulness in matters gay as an ordinary part of basic Christianity, and for his pastoral outreach in the same sphere.

An associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and has worked at USA Today, The Washington Post and The Des Moines Register. She has written extensively on the history of women in the U.S. media and serves as president of the American Journalism Historians Association.