Nicole Else-Quest, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she conducts research on STEM achievement, attitudes, and emotion at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and social class. She teaches courses in developmental psychology and the psychology of women. Dr. Else-Quest earned her PhD in psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is co-author of Half the Human Experience and the forthcoming Psychology of Women and Gender with Janet Shibley Hyde.

Erna Schneider Hoover, Ph.D.
Erna Schneider Hoover was born in Irvington, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey and from Wellesley College with a