Josh Scott is associate pastor at Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta. He helped organize a prayer walk after the March 2021 spa shootings.

Linh Thủy Nguyễn is an assistant professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington.

Mae M. Ngai is a professor of Asian American studies and history at Columbia University. Her area of study is U.S. legal and political history with a particular interest in immigration, citizenship and nationalism. She wrote an April piece in The Atlantic titled “Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience.”

Sumie Okazaki is a professor of applied psychology at New York University. Okazaki researches the impact of immigration, social and culture change, and race on Asian and Asian American teens, young adults and parents.

Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The media contact is H. Andrew Schwartz.

Daniel D. Lee is the academic dean for Fuller Theological Seminary’s Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry. Lee is also an assistant professor of theology and Asian American studies.

Paul C.H. Lim is a professor of humanities at the University of Florida with a particular focus on the consequences of Christian theology. In April 2021, Lim spoke on a Vanderbilt Divinity School panel about the histories of racialized and gendered violence.

Mihee Kim-Kort is an ordained Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister and serves as co-pastor with her spouse of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, Maryland. She wrote a March 2021 column in The New York Times called “I’m a Scholar of Religion. Here’s What I See in the Atlanta Shootings.”

DJ Ida is the executive director of National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association and a clinical psychologist.