Madison is a Lead UX Researcher at EdPlus focused on improving current and prospective student experiences through data-driven enhancements.

Colbern's areas of expertise is in American politics, race, immigration, social movements, policy, federalism and citizenship.

Bri uses mixed qualitative methods to better understand the social, religious, and sociopolitical experiences and health outcomes of immigrant communities living in the U.S. Southwest.

Ritter-Williams is an educator by vocation and habit, and researches the complex institution of higher education in the U.S. She focuses primarily on college students and has studied retention, critical thinking, and cyberbullying.

Dr. Wachter's goal is to generate applied research for local, national, and international practitioners and policy makers to alleviate the psychosocial consequences of forced migration and violence against women.

Cory A. Buckband, Ph.D. is a 2024 graduate in Educational Policy & Evaluation at MLFTC. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Educational Language Policy and Diversity in Family & Community Engagement.

Cassandra Cotton is a family demographer whose work investigates family dynamics and kinship in sub-Saharan Africa, and romance and dating across the life-course in the US.

Yalda M. Kaveh is an associate professor of Bilingual Education at MLFC. Her work focuses on language policy, bi/multilingualism in (im)migrant families, family engagement in education, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.