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Nelson graduates next week from Redondo Union High School and plans to continue working as an activist.

Amir Whitaker is a recent law school graduate and a lawyer in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Florida office.

Emily Kissner teaches fourth grade in rural Pennsylvania. In her 15 years of teaching, she has worked in preschool, middle school and elementary school. She is the author of the Heinemann books Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling and The Forest AND the Trees: Helping Readers Find Details in Texts and Tests.

Dawn DuPree Kelley is an elementary school principal in Alabama and member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board.

Walshaw is a master naturalist, retired business executive and a school volunteer who teaches about nature. He lives in Oklahoma.

Ivankovic is a middle school language arts teacher in New Jersey. She spent this year as a class support teacher.

Natalie Sturdevant is a Teach For America alum and taught eighth grade reading in a small Texas town on the border of Mexico. As a librarian, at Crazy Horse School on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Wanblee, S.D., since 2012, she’s created and executed a media class using current events as a lens for students to reflect on and develop their identities. Natalie seeks to help students develop a critical consciousness of their community and our world by wrestling with topics such as race, oppression, and socioeconomics.

Ashley Lauren Samsa teaches high school English in the south suburbs of Chicago. She also does some freelance writing.

Laura Sofen is a middle school writing teacher in Sparta, N.J. She is also a holistic health coach with a master's degree in teaching.

Clio Stearns has been teaching for 12 years, mainly working with elementary school students and focusing on appreciating everyone’s different perspective.