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Adam Harris is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he has covered education and national politics since 2018. He was previously a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education, where he covered federal education policy and historically black colleges and universities. Mr. Harris is working on a book, “The State Must Provide,” a narrative history of racial inequality in higher education and how the government is responsible for shaping it, which will be published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, in August 2021. Mr. Harris is also a 2021 New America National Fellow.

Daniel Lichter is a demographer who has published widely on topics in population and public policy, including studies on concentrated poverty and inequality, intermarriage, cohabitation and marriage among disadvantaged women, and immigrant incorporation. His recent work has focused on evolving ethnoracial boundaries, as measured by changing patterns of interracial marriage and residential segregation in the United States. Professor Lichter is especially interested in America’s racial and ethnic transformation, growing diversity, and the implications for the future. His other work centers on new destinations of recent immigrants, especially Hispanics moving to less densely settled rural areas.

Kendra Bischoff is a sociologist whose primary research interests relate to the intersection of neighborhoods and schools. She studies the patterns, causes, and consequences of racial and socioeconomic residential segregation. Professor Bischoff’s work has investigated the role of fragmented school districts in facilitating racially segregated educational environments, the relationship between income inequality and income segregation, and how school enrollment decisions are shaped by neighborhood contexts.

The work of Noliwe Rooks, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in Africana Studies and Director of the American Studies Program at Cornell University, explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history, and political life in the United States. Specifically, Professor Rooks addresses the cultural and racial implications of beauty, fashion, and adornment. In addition, her work examines race, capitalism, and education, as well as Black women and material culture. The author of four books and numerous articles, essays, and op-eds, Professor Rooks has received funding from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center to aid in her research. She lectures often at colleges and universities around the country and is a frequent contributor to popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Time Magazine, and NPR.

Sergio Garcia-Rios is a political scientist whose research centers around the idea that immigrants develop portfolios of identities which are fluid, situational, and used instrumentally. He also examines voter turnout, political participation, and public opinion, especially among Latino immigrants; he is director of polling for Univision. Professor Garcia-Rios teaches classes on immigration, race and ethnicity, Latino politics, and social science methodology.