Adam Gamoran is now the President of the William T. Grant Foundation. He was previously the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies and director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on inequality in education and school reform.

Harry Brighouse is a Professor of Philosophy and an Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1992, and spent a brief period of 2000-2002 working at the Institute of Education at the University of London. His main expertise is in political philosophy, and in philosophy as it relates to educational policy and practice, and he has an independent interest in education policy.