Jim Rosenthal is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Relief Technologies, Inc. dba Tex-Air Filters. He has over 25 years of experience in the air filtration and environmental control industries and has been active in the National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) – serving as its President in 2009-2010. He is a Certified Air Filter Specialist (CAFS) by NAFA. In 2016 he received NAFA’s Distinguished Service Aware and in 2020 their Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also President of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America – Texas Chapter from 1998 to 2013. He is also involved in air filter test standards and is currently a voting member of the ASHRAE 52.2 Committee. In May of 2024 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Colorado College – his alma mater.

Dr. Richard Corsi is Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He spent most of his career at the University of Texas at Austin where he researched and taught indoor air quality. His team researched indoor pollutant sources, chemistry, and innovative control technologies. Dr. Corsi was honored as an endowed research chair and member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and served as Director of an interdisciplinary program on Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering that spawned many successful scholars in the indoor air sciences. In 2023-24 Dr. Corsi was chair of a National Academies committee report on Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Practical Mitigation Solutions. He was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by Cal Poly Humboldt (2006) and Distinguished Engineering Alumnus by the College of Engineering at UC Davis (2016). Dr. Corsi’s work has been featured in The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Forbes, National Geographic, Business Week, and more.

John Kennedy is a Director at the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation and leads the CleanAirK12.com initiative to support indoor air quality in schools. He was the CEO of Mesa Cloud, a graduation tracking platform that he founded as a high school student in 2017 and led it until its acquisition by Panorama Education in 2023. He currently leads Education Insights for Panorama, is an angel investor and serves on the investment committee of a Southeastern family office. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he was an Innovation Scholar.

James Doernberg is the founder of Grassroots Operations, a consultancy helping social justice organizations handle business operations more smoothly. He is also a music producer and DJ, and is part of a growing movement of Mask Blocs and Clean Air organizations around the country dedicated to improving public health. He graduated from Pomona College with a degree in Public Policy.

Paula Olsiewski spent two decades in philanthropy, funding policy and scientific research programs in the microbiology and chemistry of indoor environments, and is now developing innovative strategies and new policies for improving indoor air quality and mitigating airborne disease transmission. In 2006 she wrote about pandemic response to flu that includes a mention of portable room filters as an intervention.  "Next flu pandemic: What to do until the vaccine arrives?". Science. 314 (5801): 929.  In 2022, the  International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate inducted Olsiewski as a new Academy Fellow.  Olsiewski also  served as Chair of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Homeland Security Research Subcommittee and also has expertise in biohazards and biosecurity. Olsiewski has won numerous awards for fundraising, including the MIT Henry B. Kane '24 Award, which is given in recognition of exception service and accomplishments in the area of fundraising.

Megan Jehn is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Professor of Global Health at Arizona State University. Her two decades of community-based fieldwork explore how people respond to and prepare for, individually and collectively, to infectious disease outbreaks. She currently leads ASU's Clean Indoor Air Team, a research and educational initiative that develops collaborative indoor air solutions for Arizona schools and community organizations. Jehn has raised over $20 million in research funds, as part of collaborative research teams, from NSF, NIH, EPA, the State of Arizona, and other funders.

Liesl McConchie is an international expert on how the brain learns, and co-author of best-selling book Brain-Based Learning with Dr. Eric Jensen. With over 20 years of experience in education, Liesl bridges her knowledge of how the brain best learns with her experience of teaching to create tangible strategies to support teachers and schools across the globe. She has a rich background in education that includes creating new schools, leading whole-school reforms, delivering workshops to educators, and speaking at conferences. As a mother of three school-aged kids, Liesl has advocated for cleaner indoor air in schools to improve both health and cognition. She is the co-founder of the California Alliance for Clean Air in Schools, an advocacy organization working to improve education, legislation, and regulation of indoor air quality in schools. Liesl was an early advocate for Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, leading school-wide events to build Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for all indoor gathering spaces on a school campus.

Thomas Talhelm is an Associate Professor of Behavior Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the founder of Smart Air, a social enterprise trying to help the world breathe clean air without shelling out thousands of dollars for expensive purifiers. Smart Air holds workshops where people build their own purifier and learn about the science of pollution and filters.