Becca Levy is a Professor of Epidemiology and Social Psychology at Yale University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of social gerontology and the psychology of aging. Her studies focus on how psychological factors, particularly older individuals' perceptions of aging, affect cognition and health in old age.

Tim Riffe is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. On the side, he is a data visualization guru and avid connoisseur of beats you can really dance to. His research interests include all manner of topics in formal demography, but with particular focus on identifying innovative approaches to the study of population age structures.

Peter Hepburn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Newark and a research fellow at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. His topics of interest include poverty, inequality, mass incarceration, and the sociology of culture. He received his PhD in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley where he focused on post-Welfare Reform labor practices and childcare policies and their effects on low-income families.

​Monica Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences and Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include statistical demography, small area population issues, and health and mortality inequalities. She received her PhD in Demography from Berkeley and has worked on global health and demographic research with organizations such as UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the Human Mortality Database.

​Juan Pedroza is an Assistant Professor of Demography, Migration and Inequality in the sociology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research concerns the vast inequalities present in immigrants' access to justice, the social safety net, and poverty. His latest work examines how and where deportation and enforcement initiatives exacerbate these inequalities and leave imprints in our local communities.

​Robert Pickett is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cash Transfer Lab in the Department of Sociology at New York University. He received his PhD in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley, where he focused on quantitative methods to explore the process by which fuzzy individual identities are codified into discrete categories and aggregated into distinct populations.