Julie Nicholson , Ph.D. serves as Deputy Program Director with WestEd's Center for Child & Family Studies and an adjunct professor in the School of Education at Mills College. Katie Steele , MBA is a transgender educator who has worked with diverse groups of children and adults in adventure-based and experiential education. Cyndi Maurer , Ph.D. is a research associate at the Center for Play Research at Mills College and an advocate for children's voices. Julia Hennock , MA, AMFT is a non-binary artist and therapist.

Julia has worked with young children in school- and community-based settings as well as with incarcerated trans women. Jonathan Julian , MA, AMFT is an artist, activist and therapist who works with children and adolescents using the arts to help find expression and explore the self, as well as advocating for LGBTQ+ young people in school-based and community settings. Tess Unger , MA has spent a decade as an educator, researcher, and advocate for young children. Nathanael Flynn , MA, has been teaching young children since 2005. Throughout his teaching, he has supported gender expansive children and their families to thrive in early childhood programs. Encian Pastel is a transgender teacher at a parent-teacher cooperative preschool in Berkeley, CA. He also helps organize the Bay Area Childcare Collective.