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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.”

Lynea is a pioneer in the field of health and wellness education for youth. Her Yoga Calm program was developed in a behavior classroom in a rural Oregon elementary school over 16 years ago. The program is now being used with tens of thousands of children around the world in diverse settings, such as classrooms, clinics and psychiatric hospitals like the Mayo Clinic.

Michelle Nicola is a Spanish and language arts teacher at Bridger Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, and formerly at De La Salle North Catholic High School. Nicola previously taught courses on equity and social justice at George Fox University. She uses innovative learning techniques and is always ready to turn her classroom into a theater, dance club or soap opera to reach her students. She is also a recipient of the 2014 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Rhonda Thomason is a National Board Certified educator who taught in public schools for 26 years.

Chelsea is currently in her 12th year of teaching at Jackson Middle School in Jackson, Missouri. She has taught language arts for several years and developed a knack for cross-curricular instruction. She enjoys developing practical classroom strategies that save teachers time and energy, while still increasing student achievement. Her first book, an instructional strategies book about the use of word sorts to improve vocabulary instruction in the content areas, is being published by Scholastic in January 2018.