Abram Van Engen is an associate professor of english and a faculty affiliate of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, where his interests include early American literature and culture, Puritanism, sentimentalism, and religion.

Afdhere Jama is an American writer and filmmaker of Somali origin. He wrote the book Being Queer and Somali: LGBT Somalis at Home and Abroad.

Christopher Lubienski is a professor of education at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is an expert on school choice and vouchers and the battle over them between religious group and secular groups. Contact via Steve Hinnefeld, news and media specialist.  

Joshua Cowen is an associate professor of education at Michigan State University in East Lansing and an expert on school vouchers and charter schools.

Maria Voles Ferguson is the executive director of the Center on Education Policy, an advocacy group for public education, in Washington, D.C.

Frederick “Rick” Hess is a political scientist and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., who specializes in K-12 education issues.

Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers.

David Algaze is a rabbi at Havurat Yisrael in Forest Hills, N.Y. He is one of several Orthodox rabbis described as part of a nascent group of Orthodox rabbis who supported Trump’s election.

Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights watchdog organization with Jewish roots.