Marybeth Gasman is a Philadelphia-based contributor, who is also the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She has written or edited 35 books, including Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University Press, 2022), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019 with Thai Nguyen), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015 with Clif Conrad), and Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Her newest book is HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)