Ramaswami Mahalingham, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, is interested in social marginality, immigration, and the cultural psychology of gender. He has been studying the relationship between social marginality and idealized cultural beliefs about, gender, caste, ethnicity and social class in India and among Asian Americans in the US with a particular focus on the positive and negative mental health consequences of internalizing idealized cultural beliefs, such as model minority myths. 

Merranda Romero Marin, M.S., is a doctoral student in the Counseling and Educational Psychology, New Mexico State University.

Harriette Pipes McAdoo, Ph.D., Department of Family & Child Ecology, Michigan State University, teaches courses on child development issues across cultures and child rearing practices in African American families. Her research interests include families of color, issues relating to stress, AIDS, and family values that impact families, and women's issues. She is a past president of the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family and the National Council on Family Relations, and a current Groves board member.

Isaiah McKinnon, Ph.D., Department of Education, University of Detroit Mercy, is a former City of Detroit chief of police and WDIV-TV Detroit's safety consultant, for which he won an Emmy Award. He has authored or co-authored three books and numerous articles on crime victims and is a national motivation/inspirational speaker to Fortune 500 companies and schools. Ike is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and United States Secret Service School.

Dan Pitera, M. Arch., Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), University of Detroit Mercy, and a former Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, teaches courses in architectural design. He has research interests in community development, architectural design, and management. The DCDC process engages all participants in each project—regardless of economic background, race, or religion. His collaborative design projects have included homeless shelters, schools, community centers, neighborhood planning, single/multifamily housing, city halls, and hospices.

Maresa J. Murray, Ph.D., Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University focuses on understanding resiliency traits and support systems within African American families, exploring the interaction between African American families and religiosity/spirituality, media usage, and social resources. Current research activities include the impact of popular media images on perceptions of ethnic populations and its influence on research scholarship; popular media depictions of African American sexuality and the impact on African American families.