Deborah M. Figart, PhD, is distinguished professor emerita of economics at Stockton University. While at Stockton, she founded the Stockton Center for Economic and Financial Literacy and directed the center from 2010 to 2014. She is the author or editor of 22 books and more than 100 other publications. Her scholarship has focused on employment and economic well-being, including issues such as discrimination, job quality, working time, casino employment, emotional labor at work, minimum and living wage campaigns, the underbanked and financial literacy, student loans, public banking initiatives, and local economic development.
 
Dr. Figart’s service includes the presidencies of two international professional associations: the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) in 2016 and the Association for Social Economics (ASE) in 2006. For ASE, she served three terms as coeditor of the Review of Social Economy. She also continues her long-term participation in the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE); she was a founding member in 1992. Since 2010, she has served on the board of Navicore Solutions, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to counseling consumers about financial management and debt issues. She is a member of the Philadelphia Public Banking Coalition. As a Stockton faculty member, she served two terms as chief negotiator of the Stockton Federation of Teachers (AFT [American Federation of Teachers] Local 2275).

Ellen Mutari, PhD, is professor emerita of economics at Stockton University, where she taught economics, women’s and gender studies, and developmental math. She previously held visiting positions with the graduate faculty of The New School, the Rutgers University School of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, and Monmouth University. Her coauthored books include Just One More Hand: Life in the Casino Economy (2015) and Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States (2002), among numerous other publications focusing on feminist political economy, gendered employment, and the role of work in constructing identity. In 2015, she served as president of the Association for Social Economics. She has been a steward for District 925 of the Service Employees International Union and grievance officer for the Stockton Federation of Teachers (AFT Local 2275).

Rachel Kirzner is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Stockton University.  She holds a PhD is Social Work from the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and an MSW and BA from the University of Pennsylvania.  She has over twenty years of social work practice experience prior to entering academia, with an overall focus on trauma, public benefits, and poverty alleviation programs. Her research interests include violence exposure, urban poverty, public benefits, and student success/scholarship of teaching.  Her current research projects include the Atlantic City Wellness with Heart cardiac prevention program for low-income city residents, child welfare-involved college students, and academic engagement through student-centered learning.