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Kelley Dawson Salas teaches fourth grade at La Escuela Fratney in Milwaukee, Wisc., and is an editor of Rethinking Schools.

Maria Jacketti has been a teacher for 30 years, working primarily in higher education in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

Buchan is an intern with Teaching Tolerance. She recently graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a double major in Religion and Psychology.

Liz is director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School. Previously, she was a Carr Center for Reproductive Justice Fellow at A Better Balance. Her paper “Gangsters to Greyhounds: The Past, Present and Future of Offender Registration,” was recently cited in an opinion enhancing due process rights for convicted persons.

Chris is a seventh-grade U.S. history teacher in the Washington, D.C., area. He is continuously working to design a curriculum that is anti-racist, anti-sexist and pro-social justice. In addition to teaching, Seeger is a doctoral student at George Mason University. His research is focused on how teachers adapt their curriculum and teaching to achieve equity-related goals in high-poverty schools.

Melissa is a student-activist in New Jersey, focusing on a variety of education issues, such as student voice and high-stakes testing. She is in the integrated bachelor's and master of arts in teaching program in urban education at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey. Melissa is also a coordinating committee member of the Young Teachers Collective.

For the past eight years, Hayley Breden has taught social studies courses at Denver South High School. Hayley attended Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin, to earn her B.A. in history with minors in ethnic studies and environmental studies, along with her teaching license. She earned an M.A. in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice from CU-Boulder in 2016. Breden completed her student teaching at a public high school on Chicago’s South Side. Her time teaching in Chicago also included participating in the organization Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago TSJ), which

Betsy DeMulder is the Director of Initiatives in Educational Transformation at George Mason University and visiting scholar with Teaching for Change.

Beth Reis is co-chair of the Safe Schools Coalition and works as a public health educator with Public Health - Seattle & King County.

David Vest, a Fulbright Scholar, is a freelance writer and consultant based in Houston. He has worked extensively in the domestic violence movement.