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Kinsner is an Emmy-winning kids' TV producer, former teacher and curriculum writer.

Cecile joined Teaching Tolerance in August 2014 as an administrative assistant, bringing with her extensive experience in customer service and administration. Before coming to TT, she worked as a product support coordinator at VT Miltope in Hope Hull, Alabama, and as an administrative assistant at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. At TT she provides support to the entire team, helping with any administrative duties and providing customer service support.

Lydia Wright is a law fellow in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi office. Before joining the SPLC, Lydia graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and clerked for a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana. She also taught sixth-grade language arts in rural New Mexico and worked with refugee children as a Fulbright fellow in Jordan. Lydia is passionate about educational equity and dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.

Ann Lindsey is a curriculum integrator for Jackson Middle School, a science and math specialty school in the Anoka Hennepin district in Minnesota. She is currently on sabbatical, living in Kolkata, West Bengal, India focusing on international collaboration and inquiry-based learning with secondary students in several countries. She represents the Urban Sites Project as a teaching consultant with the Minnesota Writing Project and finds every way possible to travel whenever she can.

Molly is an activist focusing on issues of education and racial and socioeconomic injustice. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she will begin pursuing her master's degree in teaching at the University of Georgia in fall 2015. Molly is passionate about making sure all students get the education they deserve and is working on a book project on teacher activism. She is also a coordinating member of the Young Teachers Collective.

Jen Cort is the founder of Jen Cort Educational Consulting. Her educational passion is to create safe spaces for kids to be seen and heard at all times while learning to use their voices and be visible in ways that work for them. Cort helps schools in this work by drawing on years of experience as a division head of an independent school, clinical social worker, school counselor and author.

Henry “Cody” Miller is an assistant professor of English education at SUNY Brockport. During his seven years as a high school English teacher and in his current role, he positions texts as vehicles to discuss broader socio-political issues in students’ lives and worlds. He leads professional development focused on creating affirming classrooms for LBGTQ youth and supporting teachers in publishing blogs and articles. Cody currently acts as the chair of the National Council of Teachers of English LGBTQ advisory board. He was awarded the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2016

Seema G. Pothini's commitment to underserved youth began by improving student engagement and success as an elementary school teacher in Houston, TX. In addition to teaching students and training teachers, Seema has worked as a K-12 Cultural Integration Specialist in racially and socioeconomically diverse schools. She also serves on the board of directors for a youth homeless shelter in Minneapolis as well as the Minnesota chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Her experience as a child of immigrant parents, coupled with her students' and their families' experiences

Rick Mula is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The aim of Rick’s fellowship project is to reduce the discrimination that LGBT youth living in Tennessee and Alabama experience in the education, child welfare and juvenile justice systems. His fellowship is sponsored by the Mansfield Family Foundation. Rick graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2015 where he received a graduate certificate in gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Rick was also awarded the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award and the Blank Rome Alvin Ackerman

Lisa Glenn graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a degree in Psychology. While at college, she participated heavily in BSC's service-learning initiatives through service-learning coursework, local service activities, and month-long service trips. Lisa was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in South Africa, where she taught 7th–9th grade technology and also earned a B.Ed. Honours degree in Human Rights Education at University of the Witwatersrand. After returning from South Africa, Lisa left her home in the South and moved West, where she taught 6th grade in Phoenix