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Ellen Fracassini taught seventh and eighth grade for 10 years in New York City public schools, where she also held various teacher leadership positions. She earned her master’s degree from Fordham University in Secondary English Education. She is an experienced ELA curriculum writer and currently teaches seventh and eighth grade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, public schools.

Josh Moon is an award winning columnist and investigative reporter working in Montgomery. A graduate of Auburn University-Montgomery, Josh has spent the last 15 years covering wide variety of news -- from sports to education to state government -- around the state of Alabama. His work appears regularly in the Alabama Political Reporter and he can be contacted at jmoon476@gmail.com.

Shinae Park teaches physics and engineering at The Lawrenceville School, an independent high school in New Jersey. In her work as a mentor teacher, she explores school culture and pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning with new educators. She is passionate about fostering equity and belonging in the science classroom and serves as an editor of the Underrepresentation Curriculum. Shinae is a graduate of UC Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University.

Growing up with a racially conscious mother, Katherine Watkins has been educated on Native American and African American literature and continues to enrich her knowledge as an avid reader. With African-American, Cherokee, Apache, Choctaw, Comanche and Irish ancestry, she is extremely interested in improving race relations, as can be seen in her classroom and activism work. Watkins is a veteran teacher of 20 years and is working on her second memoir and a novella.

Gillian teaches English at SAR High School in the Bronx. Previously, she was a tenured associate professor of English and director of writing at Yeshiva College in New York City. She has published books on Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin, as well as articles on poetry, short fiction, composition and literature pedagogy, and issues of labor equity in higher education, among other topics. She serves as forum director for The Thomas Hardy Association.