Abbie E. Goldberg is a Professor of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her research and teaching focuses on diverse families, genders, and sexualities. She is the author of two books on LGBTQ parent families, and the co-editor of a book on LGBTQ parent families. She is also the editor of the Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Spencer Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Williams Institute, and other private foundations for her work on LGBTQ parent families and adoptive families.

Adam P. Romero is the Arnold D. Kassoy Scholar of Law and Director of Legal Scholarship at the Williams Institute, and is a Lecturer-in-Law at UCLA School of Law. His research concerns how the law shapes and responds to vulnerabilities, disparities, and discrimination in society. He is the co-editor of Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations. He

successfully represented the plaintiffs in the first case in the nation to declare unconstitutional laws barring the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in the veterans-benefits context.