Jacob Wheeler is a freelance journalist who splits his time between Chicago and Michigan. He is an assistant editor at In These Times magazine and has written a book on the Guatemalan adoption industry.
Kimi Eisele is a freelance writer in Tucson. Also a teaching artist, she conducts residences and workshops in writing and dance for children, teens and adults.
James Loewen taught race relations for 20 years at the University of Vermont; prior to that he taught at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. James W. Loewen is the author of several books, including Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause.”
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.
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."
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