Dr. Lew-Williams is a scholar in the field of race and migration within the United States, with a focus on the history of Asian Americans. Her publication, “The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America,” published by Harvard University Press in 2018, explores the complex interplay between racial violence at the local level, federal immigration policies, and the ambitions of U.S. imperialism in Asia. “The Chinese Must Go” has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Sally and Ken Owens Prize from the Western History Association, the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize from the Society of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. Additionally, it was a contender for the Berkshire Conference book prize.

Dr. Hong is the author of “Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion,” published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2019. She is a member of the editorial committee for the Journal of American History and serves on the executive boards of both the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Gilder-Lehrman Scholarly Advisory Board. Recognized as a historian who engages with the public, Hong has appeared in two episodes of the Peabody Award-winning PBS docuseries “Asian Americans” (2020) and the PBS World documentary “Far East Deep South” (2021).

Dr. Tchen played a pivotal role as the principal historian for the New-York Historical Society's exhibition that explored the ramifications of Chinese Exclusion Laws on the U.S.’s development (2014–15). Furthermore, he contributed as a key advisor for Ric Burns and Lishin Yu’s American Experience documentary on PBS about the “Chinese Exclusion Act” (2017). His publication, Yellow Peril: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear (2014), provides an in-depth archival examination through images, excerpts, and essays. In the field of academic leadership, Dr. Tchen was instrumental in establishing the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University, where he was among the initial faculty of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (1996–2018).

Veeda Bybee is a former journalist and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.  She is the author of Lily and the Great Quake (Girls Survive series, Capstone), Li on Angel Island (Smithsonian historical fiction series, Capstone) and the upcoming Shining A Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World (HarperCollins, 2023). Veeda is also part of the Rural Voices anthology (Candlewick) and Calling the Moon anthology (Candlewick, 2023).

Dr. Rodriguez’s research engages critical race frameworks to explore how racial and cultural experiences impact the pedagogy and curricular enactment of Asian American and Latinx pre- and in-service teachers. She also studies how educators teach so-called difficult histories to young learners through children's literature and primary sources. She is an experienced elementary teacher and continues to provide professional development to K-8 social studies teachers at the national, state, and local levels.

Dr. An’s teaching and research center on anti-racist social studies, critical war studies, and Asian American studies. She has contributed to Smithsonian and PBS curriculum projects regarding teaching Asian American history and has had her research cited in several media outlets, including CNN, Time, New York Times, Reuters, Vox, and USA Today. She is a former high school social studies teacher in South Korea.

Dr. Kim’s work investigates the conceptualization and implementation of civic education within educational settings. She delves into the various ideologies that underpin definitions and manifestations of citizenship, particularly examining how these ideologies change during instances of border crossing. Employing critical race theory and theological perspectives, she studies how the interplay of student racial and religious identities influences these educational processes. Additionally, her recent research focuses on the portrayal of Asian Americans in children’s literature, highlighting how the lack of representation in curricula is linked to the historical and ongoing civic marginalization of Asian American communities.