Eve Galanis is a historian, social studies teacher, artist and performer based in Connecticut. She has presented her research at historical conferences including Yale University’s Ethnic Studies Symposium and the National Council on Public History. She has been featured as guest on NPR to discuss Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ history and her thesis was published by the University of Alabama’s journal of history, The Crimson Review. She currently teaches World History, American History and Philosophy in Hartford.

Dora Guo is a co-coordinator of the Eugenics and its Afterlives at Yale working group. She was part of the original 5-person team in Summer 2021 formulating original research into the history of eugenics at Yale. She has co-written an op-ed in the Yale Daily News, presented at the Harvard Hutchins Center and the Yale Gilder Lehrman Center. Dora is currently a member of the student steering committee for the course ER&M 391: Eugenics and its Afterlives. She has experience working with communities of practice through the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective and the Yale Education Studies Scholars program. She is excited to be a guest speaker for the thematic unit on "The Eugenics Movement and Its Place in US History."

Daniel Martinez HoSang is Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science and serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee. His most recent book is A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone (University of California Press, 2021). HoSang is the co-author (with Joseph Lowndes) of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and the author of the author of Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press, 2010) which was awarded the 2011 James A Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. His three current research projects include Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that Covid Lays Bare (Haymarket Press) co-edited with Kimberlé W. Crenshaw); A collaborative investigation into the history of research on Eugenics at Yale; and practice-based project on anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy for K-12 educators.

Bethsaida Nieves (she/her/hers) received her Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory and Research with a Ph.D. minor in the History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught and worked on collaborative research projects at the School of Education, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a faculty affiliate with the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health (CSCH) at the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP). Current Visiting Assistant Professor for Latinx Studies at El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies at the University of Connecticut .