Heather McCambly is a Ph.D. candidate in the human development and social policy program, a Presidential Fellow, and a fellow with the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She also serves as a consultant at the Office of Community College Research and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research traces the processes by which an increasingly influential set of policy actors—grantmaking and philanthropic organizations—develop and select frames reflective of variedrace and class ideologies, and the causal effects of these frames on the development of higher education policies. McCambly came to Northwestern after nearly a decade of working in education policy, including in state government and national nonprofits, where she focused on policies intended to reduce the institutionalized disadvantages affecting minoritized college students.

Evelyn Reynolds is an associate professor of sociology at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois.  She graduated with a Master of Science in sociology from Illinois State University in 2009 and has taught college courses for more than a decade. Before joining the Parkland College faculty, Evelyn taught sociology at Illinois State University, Heartland Community College, and Illinois Central College. She is a community activist, founder of the Black Lives Matter Champaign-Urbana chapter, and an active member of the Global Black Lives Matter Network. She has had articles featured in publications such as The Huffington Post, Next Avenue (a PBS syndicate), and TruthOut.org. Additionally, Reynolds has spoken about social issues on numerous radio broadcasts, including on WILL via National Public Radio.