With Christian Smith, Ph.D. (the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame; Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society; Director of the Notre Dame Center for Social Research)
With Franc Contreras (Journalist; Mexico City Correspondent for Al Jazeera English)
With Valerie Hotchkiss, Ph.D. (Head of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Director of the Midwest Book & Manuscript Studies Program; Professor of Medieval Studies, Religion Studies, and Library Science, University of Illinois)
With Melissa V. Harris-Perry, Ph.D. (Professor of Political Science, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts)
With Thant Myint-U, Ph.D. (Historian; Former United Nations Official)
With Karine Moe, Ph.D. (F. R. Bigelow Professor of Economics, Macalester College; Editor, Springer Publishing Series Economics of Gender), and , and Dianna Shandy, Ph.D. (Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology; Director of African Studies, Macalester College)
With William Deresiewicz, Ph.D. (Writer; Essayist; Book Critic; Contributing Writer for The Nation; Contributing Editor for The New Republic)
With John Dwyer (Deputy Director of Champaign County Emergency Management Agency), and , and Todd Short ( Emergency Planning Lieutenant with the University of Illinois Police Department, Office of Campus Emergency Planning)
With Walter Harrington (Journalist; Author)
With Thomas Vander Ven, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ohio University)
