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Erica Guillama is a tenth year kindergarten through grade five general and choral music teacher in Blackwood, N.J.

Nelson graduates next week from Redondo Union High School and plans to continue working as an activist.

Amir Whitaker is a recent law school graduate and a lawyer in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Florida office.

Nancy Barno Reynolds is a Doctoral Candidate in The Graduate School of Education at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y. and is planning to graduate in May. A former public school teacher for many years, her research now focuses on critical literacy, Democratic education, and the influence of the standardization movement on her profession.

Edna Brown is a veteran English Language Arts teacher, essayist, poet and social justice advocate residing in St. Louis. She began her career with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Maryville University and teaching adults with disabilities in one of the first community-based group homes in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Edna went on to study social work at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. Finally, she earned master’s degrees in both Secondary Education (Curriculum and Instruction) and English (Composition) from the University of Missouri, St. Louis

Jeff Sapp is a professor of education at California State University Dominguez Hills and a frequent contributor to Teaching Tolerance.

Dottie Blais taught Language Arts for more than 20 years in secondary schools in Georgia, Louisiana and Colorado.

Janet Schmidt, an educator in Wellesley, Mass. and member of TRUCE, was the 2002-03 Teaching Tolerance Research Fellow.

James M. Wilkinson has been a Spanish and English teacher at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee for 19 years.

Greg Schreur teaches English and history in Grand Rapids, Mich. public schools, working with the juvenile justice system.