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.

Greg Forster is a Friedman Fellow at EdChoice, an Indianapolis-based advocacy group that supports school choice, where he specializes in public education issues, including vouchers. Contact via Jennifer Wagner, vice president of communications for EdChoice.

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.

Katherine Stewart is the author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children, a look at religious fundamentalism’s influence on public education (2012), as well as The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020) and Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (2025).

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.