Lindsey E. Malcom is an assistant professor of higher education administration and policy in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. Her research centers on the relationship between higher education policy and access and success for underrepresented minorities (URMs) in the sciences and related (STEM) fields. In addition to exploring the ways in which institutional and college financing pathways structure opportunity and outcomes for URMs in STEM, she is interested in better understanding the roles of minority-serving institutions and community colleges in expanding STEM educational opportunity for historically disadvantaged populations. Her work has appeared in the Review of Higher Education, Journal of African American History, and New Directions for Institutional Research and in volumes published by Routledge, SUNY Press, and Stylus.

Shirley M. Malcom is director of education and human resources programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In this capacity, she oversees a suite of programs and undertakes research and policy analysis aimed at understanding factors related to improving the quality of and increasing access to education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. For over thirty-five years, Malcom has focused on the full system of issues that affect access and inclusion in STEM, from preK–workforce. She served as a member of the National Science Board, the policy-making body of the National Science Foundation, from 1994 to 1998 and as a member of the President’s Committee on Science and Technology from 1994 to 2001.