Jessi Streib is Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University. She is the author, most recently, of The Accidental Equalizer, (2023). Her work has been featured or reviewed in The Atlantic, NPR, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and LA Review of Books, among others. She was awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award by the American Sociological Association. Betsy Leondar-Wright, PhD, has been a community organizer, a diversity workshop facilitator, and a sociology professor teaching critical race theory and economic inequality. She is co-author of The Color of Wealth (2006), among other publications.