Boxer is Director of the Social Development Research Program and Professor of Psychology at Rutgers-Newark. He holds affiliate appointments in the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice and the Rutgers School of Social Work, and is an adjunct faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan. Boxer was also the founding research director of the Rutgers-NJ Gun Violence Research Center. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Bowling Green State University after completing his predoctoral internship at Wayne State University and undergraduate degree at Williams College. Boxer’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Centers for Disease Control, the US Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the National Science Foundation, as well as many other state, local, and private funding agencies. Boxer is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Research on Aggression.

Kaylise received her B.A. from Marquette University. She continued her education at Seton Hall University where she completed an M.S. in Experimental Psychology under the mentorship of Dr. Fanli Jia. Her research broadly focuses on adolescent development and violence exposure, particularly focusing on interactions between young people and law enforcement. She worked at the Chicago-based youth empowerment program Girls in the Game, where she was first introduced to community-based research. Kaylise is currently developing work on in-school law enforcement and school violence.

Romi Paldi received her B.A. in Psychology from The Interdisciplinary Center in Israel, where she also completed her M.A. in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests include bullying behavior as a risk factor among children and adolescents (e.g., peer-bullying, cyberbullying, sibling bullying), parental influence on the development of aggression among children and adolescents, and the role of bystanders in bullying situations. Before she moved to the United States, she worked as a practitioner in a psychiatric hospital for two years.

Mamadee is a junior in the School of Arts and Sciences, majoring in Psychology with a minor in Women's & Gender Studies and a concentration in Social Justice. After undergrad, he plans to pursue his doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has focused his research experience on police violence against Black, Brown, and queer folks. Mamadee's newest research interest lies in finding new ways to decolonize education in psychology and, more specifically, (feminist) psychology, moving towards a more transnational feminist approach.