Dr. Wilder is a professor of sociology at Lehman College, The City University of New York, and a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current research focuses on factors that promote quantitative literacy, trends and patterns in scholarly publishing, the experience of disability, and the roles of race/ethnicity and religion in explaining socioeconomic outcomes. She is the author of Wheeling and Dealing: Living with Spinal Cord Injury and coauthor of Voices from the Heartland: The Needs and Rights of Individuals with Disabilities. Her scholarly work has appeared in more than a dozen journals, including Scientometrics, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Milbank Quarterly, Social Science Research, Teaching Sociology, The Gerontologist, The Sociological Quarterly, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), she has been active in a variety of initiatives to promote best practices in STEM education and to improve students’ critical thinking and quantitative reasoning skills at minority-serving institutions.

Dr. Broberg is a Collaborative Campus Associate with Northern Arizona University and a retired Associate Teaching Professor from Arizona State University. He joined the School of Social Transformation’s Justice and Social Inquiry faculty at Arizona State University in 2017. Prior to his university appointment, Broberg taught in the Arizona K–12 education system for ten years. During his career, he served on numerous committees and worked closely with teachers, administrators, and policymakers in a variety of service and leadership roles. His research and professional interests focus on educational inequality, transformative pedagogy, teacher leadership and innovation, and issues related to juvenile and restorative justice. Across his career in both K–12 and higher education, Broberg has been committed to advancing educational systems that promote equity, collaboration, and meaningful opportunities for students and educators.

Dr. Vianna is a Professor of Psychology at LaGuardia Community College and at the Graduate Center-CUNY. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the CUNY-Graduate Center after completing his medical studies, including a specialization in child psychiatry in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following recent advances in Vygotskian theory, especially the Transformative Activist Stance approach, he has carried out research in various settings that serve underprivileged populations. His current research on applying critical-theoretical pedagogy to build a peer activist learning community (PALC) in a community college was featured in the New York Times. Among his awards, Dr. Vianna received the 2010 Early Career Award in Cultural-Historical Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Vianna has published in premier journals in his field, such as Human Development and Theory & Psychology, and currently he is the chief editor of Outlines Critical Practice Studies. He was a Co-PI in the five-year NSF grant titled “Building Capacity: A Faculty Development Program to Increase Students’ Quantitative Reasoning Skills.” (NSF Due #1832507; $1,500,000.00). Dr. Vianna has also served in several dissertation committees as a committee member and extra reader.

Toni Watt is Chair and Professor of Sociology at Texas State University. Dr. Watt received her PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in Demography from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is both academic and applied and focuses on improving mental health and educational outcomes for children and youth who have experienced trauma and/or the foster care system. Her work has been widely disseminated through academic outlets, national and international media, white papers, and legislative testimony. She is the recipient of the Pro Humanitate Literary Award, an honor given by the Center for Child Welfare Policy for research that makes a significant contribution to “best practice” in the field of child welfare. She is also the recipient of the 2025 American Evaluation Association Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Government Award. This distinction is given for research that contributes to the public good. Finally, Dr. Watt is dedicated to developing the next generation of evaluation researchers. She teaches undergraduate and graduate research methods courses and is the co-founder and co-director of the Texas State Sociology SOAR (Student Opportunities for Applied Research) program.

Caterina Shost, PMP, is a graduate of Villanova University and received her B.S. in Business Administration, Finance. As a certified Project Management Professional, she has extensive experience with general project management, management consulting, organizational change management, and quality assurance. She is currently the Project Manager for the NSF grant “HSI-STEM Hub for Innovation in Numeracy Education (HSI-SHINE)” (NSF DUE #2450045; $3,000,000.00) and was the project manager for the NSF grant titled “Building Capacity: A Faculty Development Program to Increase Students’ Quantitative Reasoning Skills” (NSF DUE #1832507; $1,800,000.00).