Daphna Harel (she/her) is Associate Professor of Applied Statistics and the PI of the NYU Queering and Elevating Empirical Research (QUEER) data lab. Her research interests focus on solving pressing issues through data analysis and statistics, especially at the intersection of statistics and issues pertaining to the LGBTQIA+ community.

Joanna Wuest is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement and other writing in venues including Perspectives on Politics, Social Science & Medicine, Signs, The Nation, Boston Review, and Dissent.

Patrick J. Egan is Professor of Politics & Public Policy at NYU. He is a political scientist who studies Americans’ political attitudes and behavior, and their consequences for public policy, partisanship, and identity. His peer-reviewed work on LGBTQ+ political behavior has appeared in leading political science journals, and he is at work on a book in progress entitled Over The Rainbow: Queer Lives after Gay Rights.

Priya Nair (they/them) is the Executive Director for the NYC Commission on Gender Equity. Priya is a proud New Yorker and nationally recognized leader in LGBTQ advocacy and equity policy. Priya has served in several roles throughout New York State and New York City government, including most recently as the Deputy Chief Diversity Officer for Governor Kathy Hochul where they authored the State’s guidance on the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity demographic data.

Kevin Guyan (he/him) is a writer and researcher whose work explores the intersection of data and identity. He is the author of Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and Director of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab at the University of Edinburgh.