Gregory Batson, Area Director/Community Development Specialist/Public Information Coordinator, US Department of Agriculture – Rural Development

Miguel Carranza, Professor and Director of the Latina/Latino Studies Program, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Lisa M. Dorner, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Missouri - Columbia

Sylvia Lazos, Justice Myron Leavitt Professor of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Law

Erika Noguera, Alianzas Project Coordinator, UMKC Institute for Human Development