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Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. is president and chief executive officer of TIAA, the leading provider of retirement services to the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization. He is the former vice chair of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. As the only governor in Washington, DC, on 9/11, he led the Fed’s initial response to the terrorist attacks, taking actions that kept the U.S. financial system functioning while reassuring the global financial community that the U.S. economy would not be paralyzed.

Prior to joining TIAA in 2008, Ferguson was head of financial services for Swiss Re and chair of Swiss Re America Holding Corporation. He served on President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness as well as its predecessor, the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and he co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Long-Run Macro-Economic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population. Ferguson currently serves on the boards of Alphabet Inc., General Mills, the Institute for Advanced Study, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents. He is chair of the board of trustees of the Conference Board. He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (and co-chaired its Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education) and the American Philosophical Society. Ferguson is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Group of Thirty. He holds a BA and PhD in economics and a JD, all from Harvard University.

Marcia Chatelain is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (2015), Chatelain is a public voice on the history of African American children, race in America, and social movements. In 2014, she organized fellow scholars in a social media response to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, the #FergusonSyllabus. Chatelain hosts Office Hours: A Podcast, in which she talks with millennials about what is most important to them.

Chatelain has contributed to TheAtlantic.com, Time.com, Ms. Magazine, and the Chronicle of Higher Education and has been quoted in articles in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and Chronicle of Higher Education, which named her a “Top Influencer in Higher Education” in 2016. She also has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, CNN, BBC America, and PBS. Chatelain is currently the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, and, during the 2017–2018 academic year, she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. She has been a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow; German Marshall Fund of the U.S. American Fellow; Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life Amethyst Award recipient; French American Foundation Young Leader; and a recipient of Georgetown University’s Dorothy M. Brown Teaching Award, the Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Award for Faculty Excellence, and the College Academic Council’s Faculty Award. Chatelain earned a BA in journalism and religious studies from the University of Missouri, where she was a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and an AM and PhD in American civilization from Brown University.

Nathan D. Grawe is Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences at Carleton College. He is a labor economist with particular interests in how family background—from family income to number of siblings—shapes educational and employment choices and outcomes. Currently, he studies how the taxes implicit in financial aid formulas alter female labor force participation.

Grawe has participated in the leadership of Carleton’s Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge (QuIRK) initiative, has presented and led professional development workshops at dozens of colleges and universities across the United States and Canada, and is a presenter for CIC’s Diversity, Civility, and the Liberal Arts Institutes. Grawe earned a BA from St. Olaf College and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, all in economics.

Meg Jay is associate professor of education at the University of Virginia, specializing in adult development. She has more than 15 years of experience listening to, teaching, researching, writing, and speaking about people who are in their 20s—a critical period of adult development. She is a certified clinical trauma professional as well as a certified child and adolescent trauma professional, and she maintains a private practice in Charlottesville.

Jay’s first book, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now (2012), was named a Best Book of 2012 by Slate. Her TED Talk, “Why 30 Is Not the New 20,” has been viewed more than 10 million times, and Mashable.com selected it as one of 15 TED Talks That Will Change Your Life. Her work has appeared in numerous media outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Psychology Today, BBC, and NPR. Jay earned a BA in psychology from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in clinical psychology and gender studies from the University of California, Berkeley.