Yadira Montoya is the Programs Director of the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC). In this role, oversees key organizational initiatives that focus on building health, wealth, and equity for the sixty-three million family caregivers living in the US. Prior to joining NAC, Yadira has held leadership roles in academia, healthcare, non-profit, and the philanthropic sector. In 2019, she was recognized as a Culture of Health Leader by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her leadership in community efforts that improve aging equity and the health and wellbeing of Latinx living with dementia and their family caregivers.

Erin Kent is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research in Health Policy and Management at the UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a full Member of Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, a Health Services Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center, and a Fellow at the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Her mission is to develop and implement into practice serious illness supportive care interventions, conduct research that informs the development of policies that support caregivers, and develop strategies to promote a culture of care across the lifecourse. She conducts this work in collaboration with many interdisciplinary researchers, clinicians, and students, at UNC and beyond. Dr. Kent worked at the National Cancer Institute prior to joining faculty at UNC Chapel Hill.

Margaret (Maggie) L. Longacre is the Dean of the College of Health Sciences (CHS) and Professor of Public Health at Arcadia University. Maggie previously served as Chair of the Public Health Department and as Associate Dean in CHS as well as MPH Director and the CHS Assistant Dean of Research. She is also an alumna of the HERS Leadership Institute.

Over her career at Arcadia, Maggie taught various graduate and undergraduate courses - predominantly healthcare systems and public health policy, research methods, and MPH Capstone research. Her scholarship has revolved around health policy and family caregiving, including previously securing funding from the American Cancer Society to develop and test the feasibility of a patient-caregiver portal system to enhance patient- and family-centered care in palliative oncology. This research was conducted with colleagues at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Her scholarship has also involved contributing to several national reports on caregiving with the National Alliance for Caregiving, including a project on caregiving for persons with Parkinson's disease. Additional scholarly work included a collaboration with Arcadia colleagues in Human Resources to conduct a panel for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship on caregiving and career support, which resulted in a checklist for employees and employers.

Dr. Kelly Tan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Her research focuses on describing and addressing health inequities in serious illness caregiving (e.g, ADRD and cancer). Dr. Tan is an expert in mixed methods, cancer survivorship, and community engagement in cancer research. She is the current co-chair of the APOS Cancer Caregiving Special Interest Group.