Nicholas Tapia-Fuselier, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research agenda includes examining how colleges and universities build capacity to serve, support, and advocate for undocumented students. He also examines higher education programs and policies using Critical Whiteness Studies in order to explicitly address and disrupt whiteness and imagine more equitable, racially just possibilities.

Veronica A. Jones, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the program of higher education at the University of North Texas. Her research agenda includes programming for male students of color, student engagement and activism, and equity and diversity issues. She explores these topics through frameworks such as critical discourse analysis and critical race theory.  

Cliff Harbour, Ed.D., J.D., is a Professor in the Higher Education Program at the University of North Texas and holds the Don A. Buchholz Chair for Community College Education. Dr. Harbour’s scholarship advocates for a transformation in the community college mission to help create and support democratic and sustainable communities through open access postsecondary education.