Libby Doggett is Executive Director of Pre-K Now.

Linda Smith is Executive Director of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)

Helen Blank is Director of Leadership and Public Policy at the National Women’s Law Center.

Rachel Schumacher is a Senior Fellow in Child Care and Early Education at the Center for Law and Social Policy

At the National Center for Victims of Crime, Julie oversees national initiatives working to help teenaged victims of crime through youth leadership and provides training on topics related to adolescen

Dr. Lyons is the Executive Director of a Regional Community Policing Institute, providing community policing training and technical assistance to police agencies and the Texas communities they serve.

Professor Foster's work focuses on the social policies shaping the lives of children, identifying children in need and evaluating services, programs and interventions that might meet those needs, particularly those that are delivered in real-world settings.

Professor Rhodes has written extensively on the role of mentors in promoting positive developmental outcomes among children and adolescents. In addition to studying natural mentors, she and her colleagues have analyzed longitudinal data that were collected from over 1,000 urban adolescents who participated in a national study of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Her findings provide ample evidence of the extraordinary potential of mentoring relationships, while also exposing the rarely acknowledged risk for harm that unsuccessful relationships can render.

A member of the MacArthur Foundation sponsored Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, Dr. Osgood conducts research on a variety of topics concerning crime, delinquency, substance use and other problem behaviors.

Current research examines community courts and community justice, social contagion of violence, deterrent effects of capital punishment, the jurisprudence of adolescent crime, crime control and social effects of mass incarceration, and perceptions of legitimacy of criminal law.