Charles T. Clotfelter is the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. During the 2013–2014 school year he was a Straus Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University. Clotfelter is also a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and the director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke. charles.clotfelter@duke.edu
Mark Dorosin is the managing attorney at the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights. He also teaches political and civil rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill. Much of his work at the Center has focused on issues of school segregation and resegregation in North Carolina. dorosin@email.unc.edu
Pamela Grundy is an independent historian living in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her work on education history has been supported by the Spencer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Southern Oral History Program. pamgrundy@earthlink.net
Joshua Hendrix is a doctoral student and instructor in sociology at North Carolina State University. His research interests are in family processes and child and adolescent well-being, with special emphases on the ways that parental work schedules, parental availability, and other household characteristics shape family and child outcomes. His 2013 publication in the Journal of Family Issues examines how the timing of parental work schedules influences parent/child bonds and adolescent children’s delinquent behaviors. jahendri@ncsu.edu
Helen F. Ladd is the Edgar Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics at Duke University. Most of her current research focuses on topics in education policy including school accountability, parental choice and market-based reforms, charter schools, school finance, and teacher labor markets. With colleagues at Duke, she has explored the relationship between teacher credentials and student test scores, the effects of accelerating algebra, school segregation, and the effects of early childhood initiatives. She is a past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and a member of the National Academy of Education. hladd@duke.edu
Luke Largess, along with James Ferguson and others at Ferguson Stein Chambers Gresham & Sumter, represented the class of black families in the 1999 trial that resulted in the vacating of the original Swann orders. He is now a partner at Tin Fulton Walker & Owen in Charlotte. LLargess@tinfulton.com
David Liebowitz is the principal of Joseph A. Browne Middle School in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He was formerly a middle school teacher and a policy analyst at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education and the New York State Education Department, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. dliebowitz@gmail.com
Paul McDaniel is a research fellow with the Immigration Policy Center at the American Immigration Council in Washington, DC. His research interests include urban social geography and immigrant settlement, new immigrant destinations and metropolitan regions, and immigrant integration and community receptivity. McDaniel holds a PhD in geography and urban regional analysis from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. paulnmcdaniel@gmail.com
Elizabeth Morrell is a doctoral candidate in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. Her research focuses on the political, economic, and social aspects of neighborhood change. She has extensive experience in both education and community organizing. eshockey@uncc.edu
Lindsay C. Page is a Research Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work focuses on quantitative methods and their application to questions regarding the effectiveness of educational policies and programs across the preschool to postsecondary spectrum. LPAGE@pitt.edu
Toby L. Parcel is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. She has published studies of the effects of social capital at home and at school on child and adolescent academic and social well-being in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Journal of Marriage and Family. With Andrew Taylor, she is coauthor of The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). tlparcel@ncsu.edu
Michelle Plaisance is a former teacher of English language learners for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. She is Assistant Professor of English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Greensboro College where she also is the Director of the TESOL program. She received her PhD in urban education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in spring 2014. michelle.plaisance@greensboro.edu
Stephanie Southworth received her PhD in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2008. Her research interests include the social context of education, social stratification, race and ethnicity, urban sociology, and social problems. She teaches sociology at Clemson University. southwo@clemson.edu
Andrew J. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. For the most part, his work focuses on national governmental institutions. He is coauthor, with Toby L. Parcel, of The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). ataylor@ncsu.edu
Lorén Trull holds a JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law and has been admitted to the State Bar of New Jersey. She is currently a doctoral student in the Public Policy program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include education policy and school reform, with a focus on race, social class, and gender equity. loren.trull@gmail.com
Jacob Vigdor is a Professor of Public Affairs in the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Professor Vigdor holds affiliations as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and an external fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London. jvigdor@uw.edu