Chris Del Conte is a highly regarded national leader in college athletics. He has more than 30 years of experience in building highly successful athletic departments, including at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently vice president and athletics director. Under his leadership, Texas has won numerous NCAA national championships in multiple Learfield Directors Cups, signifying the excellence of UT Athletics.

Dr. Gautam Yadama is the dean of the Boston College School of Social Work.  His research is focused on understanding poverty and environment dynamics and he is a leading researcher on interventions to improve social economic environment and health outcomes. He's a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, a member of the Implementation Science Network on Clean Cooking at the Fogerty Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

Philip Osteen is the dean of the College of Social Work at the Unviersity of Utah.  Dean Osteen has served in a variety of roles in mental and behavioral health for over three decades, including case management, community-based residential treatment and clinical research. His work has shifted more recently to evaluating interventions for men, and he is actively engaged in an initiative to expand access to higher education.

Justin Dyer serves as the dean of the UT Austin School of Civic Leadership. He's also a government professor who writes and teaches in the fields of American political thought, jurisprudence and constitutionalism, with an emphasis on the philosophical tradition of natural law. Previously, he was a professor of political science at the University of Missouri, where he also served as the founding director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.

Halaevalu Vakalahi is the president and CEO of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). She's a Pacific Islander born in Tonga and raised in Hawaii. Her areas of teaching expertise include social policy, human behavior, and the social work environment, and organizational leadership. Her two areas of research and scholarship are Pacific Islander culture and community, and women of color in academia. She earned a BS in business management from BYU Hawaii and MSW from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and a master's in education and PhD in social work from the University of Utah.

Michael Spencer is the Balmer Endowed Dean in Social Work at the University of Washington School of Social Work. He made history with the 2023 appointment, becoming the first ever native Hawaiian to serve as a dean at the University of Washington. He's an expert on indigenous population health and wellness and recently served as the Director of Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander and Oceanic Affairs at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. He's originally from O'ahu and is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools. Dean Spencer's research examines health and wellness among native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, focusing on interventions to promote health among native Hawaiians through indigenous practices and values. He also received his degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992.