Algernon Austin, the director for race and economic justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, has explored racial inequality for more than two decades, with a focus on the intersection of race and the economy. The inaugural director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity, and the economy, Austin has researched the racial wealth divide for the Center for Global Policy Solutions and the think tank Dēmos. His most recent book is America Is Not Post-Racial: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and the 44th President.

Hamutal Bernstein is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, where she leads the research organization’s program on immigration. A mixed-methods researcher with experience in policy analysis, program monitoring and evaluation, technical assistance, multilingual qualitative and survey data collection, and qualitative and quantitative data analysis, her focus is on the well-being and inclusion of immigrant and refugee families and workers.

Tanya Broder is a senior attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. She specializes in laws and policies that affect access to health care, public benefits, education, and driver’s licenses for low-income immigrants across the United States.

Muzaffar Chishti is a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and director of its office at the New York University School of Law. Prior to that, he was director of the Immigration Project at UNITE. Chishti has written, testified, and worked extensively on immigration issues.

Daniel Costa is director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute. His areas of research include a range of labor migration issues, such as governance of temporary programs, worksite enforcement, and immigrant workers’ rights. Costa has also done work on farm labor, global multilateral processes related to migration, and refugee and asylum issues.

Gregory DeFreitas, the Augustus Weller Professor of Economics at Hofstra University, directs the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy, where he edits the Regional Labor Review. Before Hofstra, he taught at Columbia and Cambridge universities, among other institutions. DeFreitas’s books include Young Workers in the Global Economy: Job Challenges in North America, Europe and Japan, and Inequality At Work: Hispanics in the US Labor Force.

Nancy Foner is distinguished professor emerita of sociology at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her many books on immigration include From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration, and One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America.

Shelby Gonzales is vice president for immigration policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where her work focuses on access to public benefits and other support for immigrants and their families. Gonzales also provides strategic direction for the implementation of effective outreach and for promoting enrollment and retention in benefit programs.

Leighton Ku is a professor of health policy at George Washington University and director of its Center for Health Policy Research. His research topics include immigrant health, health and Medicaid reform, and health economics.

Renato Rocha is a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Labor. He previously served as associate policy director for the safety net portfolio at Code for America and as a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy.