Sarah Zeller-Berkman is the director of Youth Studies Programs at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, where she also directs the Intergenerational Change Initiative, a youth participatory action research project involving tech and participatory policy making. She has spent the last two decades as a practitioner, researcher, evaluator, and capacity-builder in the field of youth and community development. Trained in social-personality psychology, she has worked in partnership with young people on participatory action research projects about issues that impact their lives, such as sexual harassment in schools, incarceration, parental incarceration, child welfare, and school discipline.

Jessica Barreto is an undergraduate student at Baruch College, where she is studying public administration. She aspires to work for the child welfare system with the aim of positively impacting future children who are engaged with these agencies. She is an adopted child who has been in foster care and has had multiple experiences with child welfare agencies. As a senior in high school, she had the opportunity to work with the Intergenerational Change Initiative as a youth researcher.

Asha Sandler is a senior at Hunter College High School in New York City. She loves reading, writing, and conducting social science research. She volunteers at a pro se immigration clinic, is passionate about helping refugees, and aspires to one day work in immigration law or policy.