Dustin Benac (Th.D., Duke University) is a collaborative change maker. He has more than a decade of experience in development, working across higher education and nonprofit sectors. He is an internationally-recognized scholar with more than $8 million in awarded grants, a university press book, and multiple other peer-reviewed publications. He has worked between nonprofit and university spaces, with experience as a researcher, teacher, and fundraiser at Duke University and Baylor University.

He currently teaches on the faculty at Baylor University, where he is the Director and the Future Communities Lab and oversees a grant-funded research program.

Corey Kalbaugh (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is an epidemiologist with twenty years of research experience in various academic settings. His research is funded by National Institutes of Health and The American Heart Association. To date, he has been awarded over $1 million in externally funded grants and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in journals.

He is an Associate Professor at Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington with appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.