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Susan Coryat has taught English in public high schools for 20 years. She most recently developed and teaches a "Contemporary Connected English Studies" course that focuses on marginalized voices and uses experiential learning at Perkiomen Valley High School in Pennsylvania.

Julian Bond has served as chair of the NAACP Board of Directors since 1998 and is president emeritus and a board member of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which publishes Teaching Tolerance magazine. He is a distinguished professor in the School of Government at American University in Washington, DC, and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.

Montana writer and poet Jennifer Greene was teaching college students before she got her first real look at the history of the Flathead Reservation and how her ancestors, the Bitteroot Salish people, came to live there. In her fiction and poetry — including this story — she often puts herself in the place of those ancestors, recreating their voices.

Melissa is a student-activist in New Jersey, focusing on a variety of education issues, such as student voice and high-stakes testing. She is in the integrated bachelor's and master of arts in teaching program in urban education at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey. Melissa is also a coordinating committee member of the Young Teachers Collective.

Brigid Hogan is an English and ESL teacher at a public high school in Washington, D.C. After working in media and communications, she received her master's in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a participant in the Folger Shakespeare Library's program Teaching Shakespeare 2018.