Joya Misra is a sociology and public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Misra also is the director of the Institute for Social Science Research. Her area of expertise includes social inequality.

C. Nicole Mason is the CEO of Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Erin Weber is the media contact.

Christina Wilson Remlin is lead counsel for the child welfare organization Children’s Rights. Camilla Jenkins is the media contact.

Stacey Stevenson is the CEO of Family Equality, an organization that advocates for LGBTQ families. Anna Libertin is the media contact.

Ronald E. Richter is CEO and executive director of JCCA, a foster-care program in New York. Richter also is an adoptive parent. Anna Gold is the media contact.

Jennifer Pizer is law and policy director at Lambda Legal, a national legal organization advocating for LGBTQ rights. Contact Tom Warnke for media requests.

Archbishop Nelson Perez leads the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Douglas NeJaime is law professor at Yale Law School. NeJaime is an expert on family law, legal ethics and law and sexuality.