Preeti Chauhan is a professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), and a professor of psychology and criminal justice at the Graduate Center at CUNY. She is a co-founder and former director of the Data Collaborative at John Jay College. Her research interests include examining the role of macro-level factors that may create and sustain racial disparities in arrests, incarceration, and victimization. Her work has informed criminal justice policies and reform initiatives in New York City, New York State, and other jurisdictions nationwide. 

Chauhan has received numerous awards, including the Feliks Gross Endowment Award and the Donal EJ McNarma Junior Faculty Award, and was named a Tribeca Disruptor Foundation fellow. She serves on the board of directors of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Law and Justice. She is also on the editorial boards of Law and Human Behavior, Psychology of Violence, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, and Psychological Services.

Chauhan received a BA and BS from the University of Florida and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia. Her predoctoral clinical internship was completed at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center.

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Crystal N. Lewis is a Public Health Law & Policy Analyst for Ohio State University and the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity https://ihje.org/. Crystal graduated in 2019 with a JD/MPH from Saint Louis University and has several years of social justice and legal research experience; specifically legal epidemiology, policy surveillance, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Crystal is currently co- teaching with Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby on Health Equity, Policy, and Advocacy. This class is a collaboration with the CDC’s Public Health Law Program and focused on discrimination in employment, specifically pregnancy discrimination. Other projects include being a co-lead in the national Collaborative for Anti-racism and Equity (CARE) https://herenow.org/ which includes continuing to track responses and declarations of racism as a public health crisis and health and racial equity frameworks on a national level and being a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant investigator focused on Housing Enforcement policy in the U.S.

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Dr. Nelson is an Associate Professor of Education Policy & Leadership and department chair in the Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Nelson served on the faculty of the University of Memphis (as Program Coordinator) and the University of New Orleans. He has taught and led in charter schools, traditional public schools, and private schools in the New Orleans area. He also served as the first-ever Education Advocate at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s School-to-Prison Pipeline Project in New Orleans, where he worked on charter school law and policy, special education access and equity, and juvenile justice issues. 

Dr. Nelson’s research and teaching interests are at the intersection of education law, education policy, and the politics of education. In particular, his research and teaching consider how education reform laws, policies, and political dynamics advance, impede, or regress efforts at achieving educational equity for Black students, families, and communities in urban settings. He considers himself a Critical Race Theorist. His work has been published in various media including law reviews, education journals, and edited books. Dr. Nelson’s work has been covered in the Washington Post and on national blogs, such as Cloaking Inequity. He maintains active memberships in the American Educational Research Association, the University Council of Educational Administration, the Critical Race Studies in Education Association, the Education Law Association, the Association of Urban Law Scholars, and the Law & Society Association. He fulfills leadership roles in some of these organizations and frequently presents scholarly works and/or professional developments at international and national conferences and research symposia. 

Dr. Nelson is currently serving as a Non-Resident Faculty Fellow at the Fordham University Urban Law Center. He is currently the Division L, Section 2 Chairperson and the Law & Education Special Interest Group Program Chair in the American Educational Research Association. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Research on Leadership Education. He also holds appointments on the editorial boards of prestigious research journals, namely Urban Education and Educational Researcher.

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Lori Riverstone is an Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. She graduated with a Masters of Public Administration and a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her teaching centers on subnational politics and policy, environmental policy, and public administration. The current focus of her research includes the intergovernmental arrangement, state preemption, and how, despite their legal subordination in the federal system, localities strive to meet their needs.

Dr. Riverstone has published in various academic journals and is the author of Renegade Cities, Public Policy, and the Dilemmas of Federalism. She is the editor of the Local Power & Politics Review, a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her book, Built for the Middle Class, is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2022.

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Eva Rosen is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. She uses ethnography, qualitative, and mixed methods to study poverty, racial inequality, and American housing policy in the urban context. In 2022-2023 she is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. 

Rosen received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology and Social Policy. Her first book, The Voucher Promise, about housing insecurity and housing vouchers was published by Princeton University Press in July 2020, and is the winner of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association and the Paul Davidoff Book Award from the ACSP. She has published papers in journals including the American Sociological Review, City & Community, Social Problems, Housing Policy Debate, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and The Annual Review of Sociology. Rosen is a member of the Scholar Strategy Network. In 2018 she was recognized as one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars and received the 40 for 40 fellowship. She is currently working on a book project with Philip Garboden entitled American Landlord about property owners and the low-end housing market. 

Rosen's work has been funded by: The National Science Foundation, HUD, The Joint Center for Housing Studies, The Furman Center, The Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, The Massive Data Institute, The Institute for Research on Poverty, and The Meyer Foundation.

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Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D., M.P.H is the inaugural Kara J. Trott Professor in Law at the Moritz College of Law and a faculty affiliate of the Kirwan Institute at The Ohio State University. She is also Co-founder and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Healing Justice & Equity and one of the Co-Founders of the Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity. 

Professor Yearby has received over $5 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to study structural racism and discrimination in vaccine allocation and from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the equitable enforcement of housing laws and structural 

racism in the health care system. She was recently awarded the McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award and served as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health as well as the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

In the twenty years that she has been in academia, she has published 33 articles, 8 book chapters, 8 reports, and 17 blogs/editorials/commentaries. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Bioethics, American Journal of Public Health, Emory Law Journal, Health Affairs, and the Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 

She earned her B.S. in Honors Biology from the University of Michigan, M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an Assistant Regional Counsel and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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