Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at UCLA. Coiner of #BlackLivesMatter, he is the author & editor of five books, including Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation (HarperCollins/Amistad, 2024). Professor Hunter served as the Inaugural Chair of UCLA’s African American Studies Department and President of the Association of Black Sociologists. 

Patrick Scallen is a historian of the Salvadoran immigrant population in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Drawing heavily upon oral and written sources, he situates Salvadoran narratives in the context of national debates on immigration reform, US Cold War foreign policy in Central America, domestic social movements, and the racial milieu of late-twentieth-century Washington, DC. 

Caleb Jackson currently serves as Counsel to Senator Adam Schiff on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. In this role, he works on complex legal and policy issues at the intersection of constitutional law, civil rights, and federal oversight. 

Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, where he guides and conducts research on a wide array of topics related to fiscal policy and the federal budget. He is frequently quoted in a number of major media outlets and works regularly with Members of Congress and their staffs on budget-related issues.