Gregg Barrios taught in the Crystal City schools for 10 years. Since then he has been a successful journalist for the Los Angeles Times and more recently was book editor of the San Antonio Express-News. He is now a full-time playwright.
Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Starting as a teacher at P.S. 25 in the Bronx (the first fully bilingual school in the Northeast) Nieto has taught students at all levels from elementary grades through graduate school, and she continues to speak and write on multicultural education, teacher preparation, and the education of Latinos and other culturally and linguistically diverse student populations. Her book Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, is widely used in
Kristina Rizga is an editor and publisher of the online Wiretap magazine. This essay is excerpted with permission from "Top 10 Youth Activism Victories in 2007."
Brenda Randolph is the Director of AfricaAccess, Chairperson of the Africana Children's Book Award and Library Media Specialist with the Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools.
