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Dr. Cynthia Hudley, Professor of Education, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Ronald Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University- The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Senior Research Associate at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

Dr. Olatkunbo Fashola, Senior Research Scientist with the American Institutes for Research, Adjunct Research Scientist with the Johns Hopkins University American Institutes for Research

Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer, Professor of Psychology, Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development Program, Director, Center for Health Achievement Neighborhoods Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES), Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Collective Research Institute, University of Pennsylvainia

Dr. A.J. Franklin, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, The City College of the City University of New York

Dr. Miles Anthony Irving, Assistant Professor , College of Education, Georgia State University, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Dr. Victor Rios, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco

Dr. Tony Whitehead, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Director and founder of the Cultural Systems Analysis Group, University of Maryland

Dr. Shaun R. Harper, Assistant Professor and Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Vivian Gadsden, William T. Carter Professor in Child Development and Education at The University of Pennsylvania, Director, National Center on Fathers and Families, Associate Director, National Center on Adult Literacy

OSU partners:

Dr. Gwendolyn Cartledge, Professor in College of Education, The Ohio State University

Dr. Ralph Gardner III, Associate Professor in the College of Education, The Ohio State University

Dr. James Moore III, Associate Professor in the College of Education, The Ohio State University

Dr. Stephen Gavazzi, Professor in Human Development and Family Science, Co-Director of the Center for Family Research, The Ohio State University