Micah Altman (pictured) is a social and information scientist at MIT’s Center for Research in Equitable and Open Scholarship. Previously he served as director of research for the MIT Libraries, head/scientist for the Program on Information Science, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution; and at Harvard University as the associate director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, archival director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and senior research scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.
Philip N. Cohen is a professor of sociology and a demographer at the University of Maryland, College Park, where his research and teaching concern families and inequality.