Paul Gorski, PhD, is the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute and EdChange. He has 25 years of experience helping educators, nonprofit workers, and others strengthen their equity efforts. He also is the research director of the Equity Literacy Institute, conducting and collaborating on research and other scholarship related to maximizing the transformative potential of equity efforts.

Gorski has published more than 70 articles and has written, cowritten, or coedited 12 books on various aspects of educational equity, including Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap and Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education (with Seema Pothini). Gorski earned a PhD in educational evaluation at the University of Virginia.

Katy Swalwell, PhD, is lead equity specialist for the Equity Literacy Institute and founder of Past Present Future Consulting & Media. Over the past 20 years, Swalwell has served as a classroom teacher in public and private schools at the elementary and secondary levels, teacher educator, researcher, and administrator.

Her books include Educating Activist Allies: Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite, Social Studies for a Better World: An Anti-Oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators (with Noreen Naseem Rodríguez), and Anti-Oppressive Education in "Elite" Schools: Promising Practices and Cautionary Tales from the Field (coedited with Daniel Spikes). Swalwell's PhD in curriculum theory, research, and design is from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.