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Julie Weiss is an education writer with a commitment to social justice. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies, has taught at the college level and now develops curricula, textbook materials and assessments.

Howard is a staff attorney and juvenile justice policy specialist at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She specializes in youth-based civil rights litigation as well as education and juvenile justice systems reform.

Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former Chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a nationally recognized researcher in independent and public K-12 schools and teaches how children can develop healthy racial identities through racial stress management. The PLAAY (Preventing Long-term Anger and Aggression in Youth) Project uses basketball and racial socialization to help youth and parents cope with stress from violence

Erica Licht, MPA, MSc., (she/her) is the research project director at the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA) at Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Her career has focused on collaborative community and institutional change programs globally.