Bemak conducts research focused on cross-cultural counseling, social justice, refugee and immigrant mental health, at-risk youth, and post-disaster counseling. His recognition in these areas extends to 30 countries and throughout the United States. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, Kellogg International Fellow, and World Rehabilitation Fund Fellow. He is founder of Counselors Without Borders and received the 2004 O'Hana Social Justice Award by the Counselors for Social Justice, a division of the American Counseling Association.

DeMulder is director and associate professor of Initiatives in Educational Transformation (IET) in the Graduate School of Education's Master's in New Professional Studies - Teaching Program. DeMulder's research concerns the study of interpersonal relationships in educational contexts and risk and protective conditions in children's development and early education. She is involved in community-based action research in South Arlington, where she developed a family-centered preschool program for low-income, immigrant families as a university/community partnership. DeMulder co-edited a book entitled Transforming Teacher Education: Lessons in Professional Development (Bergin and Garvey, 2001) and has published her research in a variety of professional journals.

Hart teaches courses on U.S. immigration policy and international migration and public policy. His research on immigration, innovation, and entrepreneurship has been published in a number of scholarly journals and was the focus of a 2011 forum at the Brookings Institution. He is currently at work on a book on U.S. immigration policy and global talent flows.

Leeman can discuss the impact of immigration on language use, attitudes and policies, including multilingualism, language access (government services in multiple languages), official languages, linguistic discrimination, and language education for minority language speakers. In addition, she can talk about Latino racial identity and Census racial classification, as well as about attitudes towards Spanish. She served as Research Sociolinguist at the U.S. Census Bureau from 2011-2013.

Shelley is the author of “Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective” (Cambridge University Press 2010), one of the bestselling books on Amazon on human trafficking. She is the founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University. She is a leading expert on transnational crime and terrorism with a particular focus on countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union.