Eric Isaac is a professor at Florida International University (FIU), in the Religious Studies Department. Eric's scholarly pursuits are deeply rooted in his personal journey as a Latinx survivor of spiritual abuse. This profound aspect of his experience has driven him to conduct the first qualitative and quantitative research study that investigates the phenomenon of spiritual abuse within Latinx Protestant faith communities. Aimed at understanding how incentives to preserve power inform experiences of spiritual abuse, the research brings new insights to an emerging field of research, that blends social science and legal theory. In addition to this, Eric also is a founding faculty member for an academic certificate for the study of Christianity at FIU, in which he also created and formalized the first university course on the topic of spiritual abuse. Eric currently holds two master’s degrees, one in Latin American and Caribbean studies from FIU, as well as a master's in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Rosario Barraza  (she/her/ella) is an undergraduate student studying Latin American Studies and International Affairs at Florida State University. She’s originally from Miami with Peruvian descent and recently moved to Tallahassee, FL for education. Her former experience in community organizing brought her to have research interests in the healthy development of youth of color, critical civic engagement/critical consciousness, gender violence, and exclusion in Latin America.

Corissa Draper is an undergraduate psychology student at DePaul University in Chicago. She is a white, cisgender woman raised in a predominantly white town in Ohio in a household passionate about social justice. Her parents instilled an understanding of the importance of diversity and using privilege to help combat inequalities. The context in which she grew up made her question existing power structures that were often centered around whiteness. Throughout her adolescence, she started to lead efforts to combat these systemic inequalities in her school and community. As an undergraduate student and research assistant, her scholarship focuses on learning more about the identities and histories that are silenced in various education and community environments. Her clinical work informs her scholarship by helping children navigate the intersection between being marginalized by cognitive and social disabilities and identifying as Latinx.

Missy Fuentes Delgado is the Lab Manager for the CASA Lab. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity with a subplan in Politics, Policy and Equity, along with minors in Psychology and Symbolics Systems. Missy's research interests include racial/ethnic identity development and diversity within broader institutions, specifically how it can inform the development of interventions for real world application.