María Luisa Méndez is Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Director of the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). She previously served as Director of the Department of Sociology at Diego Portales University (UDP). Her research explores social mobility, urban inequality, and elite reproduction in Latin America. She is the author of Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction and The Politics of the Elite. Her work has appeared in leading journals including Urban Studies, Urban Geography, and The Sociological Review.

Mike Savage has written extensively on the sociology of class and inequality. He has been Professor at the Universities of Manchester and York and was founding co-Director of the LSE's International Inequalities Institute, one of the world's premier interdisciplinary centres for the study of inequality. His best-selling (co-authored) book Social Class in the 21st Century made a major impact in insisting on social class

as a key contemporary divide. The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past has been translated into three languages.

Annette Lareau is the author of the award-winning books Unequal Childhoods, Home Advantage, and Listening to People. With Blair Sackett, she authored We Thought It Would be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America. She is currently writing a book, to be published with the University of California Press, on the blessings and challenges of wealth for family life. Lareau is Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Past President of the American Sociological Association.