Dr. Nadia E. Brown (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Professor of Government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University. She specializes in Black women’s politics and holds a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Brown’s research interests lie broadly in identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women’s studies. While trained as a political scientist, her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity.

She is the author or editor of several award winning books – including Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making (Oxford University Press); Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (with Danielle Lemi); Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics (with Sarah Allen Gershon, Routledge Press); The Politics of Protest: Readings on the Black Lives Matter Movement (with Ray Block, Jr. and Christopher Stout, Routledge Press); Approaching Democracy: American Government in Times of Challenge (with Larry Berman, Bruce Allen Murphy and Sarah Allen Gershon, Routledge Press). Professor Brown is the lead editor of Politics, Groups and Identities. Professor Brown is part of the #MeTooPoliSci Collective where she spearheads efforts to stop sexual harassment in the discipline. Along with co-PIs Rebecca Gill (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Stella Rouse (University of Maryland, College Park), Elizabeth Sharrow (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) she is the recipient of a million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled “#MeTooPoliSci Leveraging A Professional Association to Address Sexual Harassment in Political Science”.

Dr. Niambi Carter is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland. She is the author of the award-winning text American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her research examines public opinion and political behavior with respect to immigration. As a scholar of racial and ethnic politics in the United States, her work centers experiences of Black people. Her next book-length project examines U.S. Haitian refugee policy from the Carter administration to the Biden administration. A former Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Carter is a recipient of an NSF grant as part of the Build and Broaden initiative. Her work has appeared in a number of outlets, such as the DuBois Review, Politics, Groups and Identities and the National Review of Black Politics.

Dr. Loren Collingwood is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of New Mexico. He previously taught at UC Riverside. He is the author of more than 40 peer reviewed articles, a dozen book chapters, and two books with Oxford University Press: Campaigning in a Racially Diversifying America: When and How Cross-Racial Electoral Mobilization Works; and Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge. Substantively, Loren is an expert in campaigns and elections, Latino politics, public opinion, immigration politics, and voting rights. Loren has served as an expert in many voting rights cases, election law, and redistricting cases around the United States, working in nearly 20 different states during the 2020 redistricting cycle alone. He is the leading author of the eiCompare suite of R packages (which also include bisg and eiExpand) that provide freely available software to people conducting and visualizing racially polarized voting analyses.

Dr. Brad Jones teaches and does research in the field of race and ethnic politics, particularly emphasizing immigration policy, attitudes and opinion about immigration, and Latinx politics more generally at the University of California, Davis in Political Science. His research agenda is multidisciplinary, encompassing not only political science, but also social psychology and sociology as well. He strongly believe we should engage questions that produces research with an eye toward making a change. As such, his recent work has focused on the implications of deportation policy as well as the relationship between border enforcement and migrant deaths on the U.S.-Mexico border. These questions have naturally led him to think about Latinx identity, non-Latinx perceptions of Latinx, and Latinx-relevant public policy, including U.S. immigration policy. His work has been published in several leading academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Politics of Groups and Identity, and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. He frequently engages the media on questions related to immigration policy and has been quoted in the Washington Post, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Pacific Standard and other national media as a leading source of public opinion on immigration and border-related issues. In addition to national media, he has discussed these issues with Australian, French, Italian, Latvian, and Northern Ireland media outlets.

Dr. Michael Jones-Correa (PhD Princeton) is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and former, founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught previously at Harvard and at Cornell, where he served as the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government. He is a co-author of Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants (Russell Sage 2020), Latinos in the New Millennium (Cambridge, 2012) and Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (Temple, 2010), the author of Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell, 1998), the editor of Governing American Cities: Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition and Conflict (Russell Sage 2001) and co-editor of Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford 2013. He has published numerous articles and book chapters.

Jones-Correa is a co-PI of the 2006 Latino National Survey, a national state-stratified survey of Latinos in the United States; the 2012 and 2016 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, and the Philadelphia-Atlanta Project, a collaborative research project on contact, trust and civic participation among immigrant and native-born residents of Philadelphia and Atlanta. His research has received support from the Carnegie, Ford, MacArthur, Robert Wood Johnson, Russell Sage and National Science foundations, among others.

Dr. Jane Junn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California. She is the author of five books on political participation and public opinion in the United States. Her most recent book The Politics of Belonging: Race, Immigration, and Public Opinion (with Natalie Masuoka), was published in 2013 by the University of Chicago Press. Her first book, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (with Norman Nie and Ken Stehlik-Barry, University of Chicago Press, 1996), won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation award from the American Political Science Association for the best book published in political science. She is also the author of Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn (with Richard G. Niemi, Yale University Press, 1998), New Race Politics: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics (edited with Kerry L. Haynie, Cambridge University Press, 2008), and Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities (with Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan and Taeku Lee, Russell Sage Foundation, 2011). Her research articles on political behavior, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, the politics of immigration, gender and politics, and political identity have appeared in journals including Perspectives on Politics, The DuBois Review, Politics & Gender, American Politics Research, and the American Behavioral Scientist. Jane has been Vice President of the American Political Science Association, a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and the recipient of an Outstanding Teacher Award from Columbia University Teachers College. She was a member of the Social Science Research Council National Research Commission on Elections and Voting and a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on the U.S. Naturalization Test Redesign. She was the director of the USC – Los Angeles Times Poll during the 2010 California election. She is currently at work on a new book on the “gender gap” and voting in the United States.

Dr. Tyson D. King-Meadows is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Norfolk State University, and a former Professor of Political Science and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMass Boston). Prior to joining UMass Boston, Dr. King-Meadows served as Professor of Political Science, Associate Dean of Research and college Affairs in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and as Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research interests include public opinion, African American electoral behavior, voting rights, and U.S. political institutions. Dr. King-Meadows has published a range of scholarly articles and monographs, including Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-First Century (with Thomas F. Schaller) and When the Letter Betrays the Spirit: Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama. His teaching and research endeavors have been supported by the American Political Science Association (APSA), the National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, Princeton University, the U.S. State Department, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. Dr. King-Meadows has also served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana, a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow at Harvard University, and as a APSA Congressional Fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary.

Dr. Jessica Lavariega Monforti is a Vice Provost at California State University, Channel Islands who supports the academic endeavors and development of faculty, students, and staff, and our institution. Dr. Lavariega Monforti believes that education can empower students and help them and others acknowledge their potential. Dr. Lavariega Monforti has landed nearly $10M in major grant funding, published 3 books and over 50 articles and book chapters, and contributed to several news articles and broadcasts including the New York Times, La Opinión, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Dr. Lavariega Monforti is an award-winning teacher, leader, and scholar, having received the MPSA Latino Caucus Distinguished Career Award, UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Latino/a Undergraduate Students in Political Science, various best research paper awards from major political science associations, as well as institutional leadership awards. She is a Ford Fellow, the founder and co-organizer of the biennial, national Women of Color in Political Science Workshop, and past president of the Western Political Science Association. Dr. Lavariega Monforti holds a PhD in Political Science from The Ohio State University, and is an alumna of WSCUC’s Accreditation Leadership Academy, ACAD Fellow Program, the HERS Institute and Berkeley’s Executive Leadership Academy.

Dr. Pei-te Lien is a professor of Political Science affiliated with Asian American Studies, Feminist Studies, and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her primary research interest is the political participation and representation of Asian and other nonwhite Americans. Most of her recent work examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and nativity in political behavior, both of the elites and the mass. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, Lien has (co)authored and co-edited eight books. She is a co-principal investigator of the Gender and Multicultural Leadership (GMCL) project http://www.gmcl.org and a co-author of Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America (Cambridge UP, 2016) based on this project which won the 2017 Distinguished Career Book Award from the American Political science Association (APSA) Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. The dataset is available online as ICPSR Study No. 36826. The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community (Routledge, 2004), coauthored with M. Margaret Conway and Janelle Wong, is based on her National Science Foundation-sponsored Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (SES-9973435). The dataset is available online as ICPSR Study No. 3832. Lien is the 2023 recipient of the Don T. Nakanishi Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Service in Asian Pacific American Politics, the Western Political Science Association. The award was made in part to the publication of her latest book Contending the Last Frontier: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans (Oxford UP, 2022), coauthored with Dr. Nicole Filler.

Dr. Valerie Martinez-Ebers is a University Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latino and Mexican American Studies Program at the University of North Texas. She is a former Vice-President of the American Political Science Association and a former President of the Western Political Science Association. From 2012-2016, she served as Co-Editor of the American Political Science Review. Dr. Martinez-Ebers has published widely on a variety of topics associated with the politics of race and ethnicity, including articles in all the top journals of her discipline. She is co-author of Politicas: Latina Public Officials in Texas (2008); Latino Lives in America: Making it Home (2010); Latinos in the New Millennium: an Almanac of Opinion, Behavior and Policy Preferences (2012) and Human Relations Commissions: Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City (2020) and The American professor Pundit: Academics in the World of U.S. Political Media (2021). She also edited Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and Religion: Identity Politics in America (2009), an anthology that examines the history, current issues and dynamics of minority groups in the United States. She was co-principal investigator for the Latino National Survey, an 8,643-respondent, state-stratified survey funded by the Ford, Carnegie, Russell Sage, Hewlett, Joyce, and National Science Foundations.

Dr. Byron D’Andra Orey conducts research in the area of race and politics, political psychology, psychophysiology and legislative behavior. He currently serves as Professor of Political Science at Jackson State University. He has received over $2.5 million in research grants. His research has been featured on such media outlets as Al Jazeera, MSNBC, CNN, the Daily Beast, and the News Hour (PBS).

Dr. Jerry Park is an associate professor of sociology and an affiliate fellow of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a psychology degree and earned his masters and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include the sociological study of religion, race, identity, culture and civic participation. Recent publications have covered topics such as racializing religious measures, religion and inequality attitudes, religion and workplace attitudes, religious attitudes of academic scientists, and Asian-American religiosity. Currently his research focuses on attitudes toward racial and religious minorities and perceptions of discrimination from racial and religious minorities including: perceived religious group threats, White perceptions of racial inequality, perceptions of Anti-Muslim discrimination, and perceived Asian American advantage. His undergraduate teaching is in the sociology of racial and ethnic inequalities and at the graduate level, he teaches a seminar on the sociology of culture and religion, and the sociology of race, gender, and religion. He serves as associate editor for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Dr. Dianne Pinderhughes is Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. At Notre Dame she is also a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute, a Faculty Affiliate in the Gender Studies Program, and is also a Concurrent faculty member in American Studies.

Pinderhughes holds the 2022-23 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. She is President of the International Political Science Association, 2021-2023. She was First Vice President of the International Political Science Association (2014-2016) and Program Co-Chair of the July 2016 World Congress held in Poznan, Poland. She has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2003-04). Pinderhughes served as President of the American Political Science Association from 2007-2008, and as President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists from 1988-89. The APSA Presidential Task Force she appointed completed its report: Political Science in the 21stt Century, in 2011. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. In 2019 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2023 she was named to the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Pinderhughes’ research addresses inequality with a focus on racial, ethnic and gender politics and public policy in the Americas, explores the creation of American civil society institutions in the twentieth century, and analyzes their influence on the formation of voting rights policy. Her publications include Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory (1987). Black Politics After the Civil Rights Revolution: Collected Essays, Routledge is forthcoming. She is co-author with Carol Hardy-Fanta, Pei-te Lien and Christine Sierra of Contested Transformation: Race, Gender and Political Leadership in 21st Century America (2016); and co-author with Todd Shaw, Louis DeSipio and Toni-Michelle Travis of Uneven Roads: An Introduction to US Racial and Ethnic Politics, Congressional Quarterly Press, (2015, 2018).

Dr. Ricardo Ramírez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His broad research interests include political behavior, state and local politics, and the politics of race and ethnicity. His research is geared to understanding the transformation of civic and political participation in American democracy by focusing on the effects of political context on participation, the political mobilization of and outreach to Latino immigrants and other minority groups, and the causes and consequences of increasing diversity among elected officials. He is Principal Investigator of a longitudinal study of gendered career paths among Latina/o elected officials since 1990 and coeditor of Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States. His most recent writings include: “Mobilization en Español: Spanish language Radio and the Activation of Political Identities,” “Transnational Stakeholders: Latin American Migrant Transnationalism and Civic Engagement in the United States,” “Why California Matters: How California Latinos Influence the Presidential Election,” “Political Protest, Ethnic Media and Latino Naturalization,” and “Latinos during the 2006 Immigration Protest Rallies.”

Gabriel R. Sanchez, PhD.  is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, the Director of the UNM Center for Social Policy, Director of Graduate Studies for the Political Science Department, and a founding member of the UNM Native American Budget and Policy Institute. Sanchez is also the Director of Research for BSP Research. A leading expert on Latino and New Mexico politics, he regularly provides political commentary to several state, national, and international media outlets including the New York Times, CNN, Los Angeles Times, and the Economist. Professor Sanchez has also directed many research projects and polls across the southwest and has presented his research for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and often serves as an expert policy advisor to the New Mexico State Legislature.

Dr. Alyasah “Ali” Sewell (they/them) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University, Affiliated Faculty with the Department of African American Studies, and Executive Director of the Critical Racism Data Lab. They are a leading expert in quantifying systemic racism, police brutality, and intersectionality. A widely-published medical sociologist, social psychologist, and social science research methodologist, they assess the political economies of racism, medicine, and health disparities using interdisciplinary, policy-relevant, and actionable research models.

Sewell is the Senior Justice Work Fellow at the National Center for Civic Innovation, where they field the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey – the first-ever cross-sectional repeated panel survey of LGBTQ+ women based on an intersectional sampling design. In 2016, Planned Parenthood designated them “The Future: Innovator and Visionary Who Will Transform Black Communities.” They were named the Georgia Sociologist of the Year in 2021. They are a renowned public sociologist, having given over 70 honored and invited lectures on data equity issues in the science of racial statistics and founding The Race and Policing Project, an early incubator of peer-reviewed research on ethnoracial inequalities in police brutality and injury prevention. Their research has garnered support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.

Dr. Sewell was a Vice Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. They received their Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington with a Ph.D. Minor in Social Science Research Methods, and their B.A. summa cum laude in Sociology from the University of Florida with a minor in Women’s Studies. Prior to joining the Emory faculty in 2013, Dr. Sewell held graduate teaching positions at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and the University of Mannheim in Germany, where they innovated the pedagogy of quantifying ethnoraciality and racism.

Dr. Christopher Stout is a Professor of Political Science at University of California, San Diego.

Christopher Stout’s research focuses on the politics of underrepresented groups in the United States. Much of this research seeks to explore how political elites of color use messaging strategies to boost electoral support and investigates how political and social factors shape group identity. To answer these questions, he uses a wide variety of data sources including public statements from politicians, outreach on social media, and public opinion polling. This research has appeared in dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles and in the award-winning book Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization, and Voting Behavior in the Age of Obama and The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Realignment, Demographic Change, and the Efficacy of Racial Appeals.

Dr. Edward Vargas is an Assistant Professor of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Professor Vargas research examines the effects of poverty and inequality on the quality of life, focusing specifically on health, education, and social policy, and how these factors contribute to the well-being of vulnerable families. In addition, poverty and inequality are strongly tied to race and ethnicity. He is also interested in the methodological issues involved in the quantitative study of race and ethnicity. To address these issues, he has developed two programs of research. The first examines how anti-immigrant climate is impacting Latina/o health. A second area research examines methodological issues in the quantitative research on race and ethnicity among Latina/o populations. He is currently Co-PI on the 2016 & 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) and Co-PI on the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey. More information about Dr. Vargas can be found here.

Dr. Janelle Wong is Professor in the Departments of Government and Politics and American Studies at the University of Maryland and a core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program. From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Wong is the author of Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change (2018, Russell Sage Foundation), Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (2006, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics, including Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities (2011, Russell Sage Foundation), based on the first national, multilingual, multiethnic survey of Asian Americans.