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Auguste is a writer and mother of four who lives in New Jersey. She writes about the cultural experiences of families for anthologies, children’s magazines and academic journals.

Joi Miner has been writing for as long as she can remember, but began her career as a spoken word artist. After making it to the finals in the Turner South “My South Speaks” competition, she appeared in a commercial and won slams at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Green Mill in Chicago. Miner has four poetry collections under her belt: Graffitied Gypsy (2003), Fun House Mirrors (2005), Socioanthropologicfeminisms (2010) and Outrun The Night (2012). (Hear her read “ The Day I Swam Into a New World,” Teaching Tolerance’s first-ever audio Story Corner.)A domestic violence and sexual

Stephanie is an assistant professor of social studies education at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include democratic and citizenship education, pre-service teacher education and social studies education.

Jill Spain is a middle school language arts teacher in New Jersey. She has earned a bachelor of arts degree in special education and a master of arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She is the recipient of an Outstanding Lessons Award for a Holocaust lesson for sixth graders, has participated in the “Lest We Forget” study tour to historic Holocaust sites in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic and is a member of her school’s curriculum council.

Linda Alston is author of the book, Why We Teach: Learning, Laughter, Love and the Power to Transform Lives and recipient of the 2006 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award.

Victoria Purcell-Gates is the Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood Literacy for the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She studies the ways in which people within communities value and practice literacy in all aspects of their lives. Her interests also include designing early literacy instruction that builds on young children's linguistic, cognitive, cultural, and social models for reading and writing acquired within their home communities. She is a former president of the National Reading Conference and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Her latest book is

Anne Savage is an Educational Resource Specialist at the Library of Congress, where she develops and delivers professional development, as well as creates classroom materials. Before coming to the Library, she was an elementary teacher and school-based technology specialist in Fairfax County, Virginia, and a programming manager of educational Web content at a large corporation.

Ginger Aaron-Brush teaches elementary physical education in metro Birmingham, Alabama. As an educator for 15 years she has mentored many student interns and has lead countless professional development sessions. She holds bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Montevallo and an educational specialist degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Susan, an enrolled member of the Coharie Tribe of North Carolina, is a professor in the Educational Leadership Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Faircloth’s research interests include: Indigenous education, the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students with special educational needs, and the moral and ethical dimensions of school leadership.

Scott Martelle is a Detroit-based journalist and critic.