Bruce A. Perkins has been a pastor and educator for fifty years. He is the founding director of the Prison Divinity Program, which offers a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma Baptist University to incarcerated men in the Oklahoma prison system. The program is the first of its kind in the state. He is a 2025 Oklahoma Baptist University Walter O. Mason, Jr. Kingdom Diversity Hall of Fame inductee for his work to bring transformative education to Oklahoma's incarcerated population.



Jeanetta D. Sims is a 2023 Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame inductee, thirty-plus-award-winning scholar, and professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is the founder of Diverse Student Scholars, an interdisciplinary program of undergraduate research engagement, which was recognized with a 2022 DaVinci Award for creativity in Oklahoma higher education. As a former coeditor of the Journal of Transformative Learning and cofounder of the Transformative Learning Conference Proceedings, this is her third coedited book on transformative learning.