Craig Gundersen is a professor in the economics department  at Baylor University and holds the Snee Family Endowed Chair at the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty. He studies the causes and consequences of food insecurity and evaluates food assistance programs.

Sharon Dolovich is director of UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program and the COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project.

Martin Horn is a professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former corrections commissioner for New York City.

The Rev. Jason Lydon is minister at Second Unitarian Church of Chicago. Lydon joined other faith leaders outside praying for the early release of prisoners amid the pandemic and has been active on other fronts related to criminal justice reform.

Matthew Wynia is the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. His areas of interest include infectious diseases and public health.

Vanita Gupta is the president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Under the Obama administration, Gupta led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner is the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. The center’s advocacy work includes criminal justice reform.

Kevin Cokley is an educational psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies African American psychology. He wrote a 2019 piece titled “Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white Americans” for The Conversation.