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Mary Ann Lieser is a freelance writer and registered nurse living in Wooster, Ohio.

Patrice O’Neill is the CEO and executive producer of Not In Our Town.

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. Prior to Stanford, Darling-Hammond was William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she was the founding executive director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching

Bonnie DeSimone is a freelance writer who lives outside Philadelphia. She first became interested in Norse mythology in 4th grade when she read Marvel comic books featuring Thor, and in 8th grade drew and wrote her own strip about her classmates.

We are the staff of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Learning for Justice program. We are committed to teaching and learning together in community to foster the practice of democracy for the greater good of our communities in the South and our nation.

Jim is an experienced writer and the former head of a school counseling department in a school with a high immigrant population. He has written for the Washington Post, USA Today Weekend, Parent magazine, Baltimore Magazine, Hopkins magazine, Washingtonian and a number of other national education publications.

Susan has been teaching in public school settings for over 30 years. For the past 15 years, she has been a teacher/librarian for the Amherst Public Schools in Massachusetts. She has also taught preschool, kindergarten and first grade in schools in Minnesota and Massachusetts.

Dr. Paul Roud is a clinical psychologist and adjustment counselor. He draws on humanistic psychological principles and proven mindfulness techniques in his work as an educational consultant. His best selling book, Making Miracles, tells the story of 11 individuals who triumphed over devastating illnesses.

Joel Baum is the Senior Director of Professional Development at Gender Spectrum, a leading national nonprofit dedicated to gender understanding for all children and youth. Joel has worked as an educator focused on issues of social justice and equity for over 30 years.

Tim Lockette is a freelance writer in Montgomery, AL, and former editor of Teaching Tolerance.