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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.

Karen is a second-grade master teacher at Aspire Monarch Academy in Oakland, California. In addition to teaching, Schreiner is a mentor teacher with the Aspire Teacher Residency Program, coaching and co-teaching with a resident teacher. She is a culture lead teacher at Monarch, working with the Culture Leadership Team to improve school culture and climate. In 2016, she was awarded the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching. Twitter: @schreink.

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

Rebecca VanderMeulen is a freelance writer in Exton, Pennsylvania. She is an M.Ed. candidate in School Counseling at West Chester University.

Anthony Godby Johnson is a writer who lives in New York City. His memoir, A Rock and a Hard Place, was published in 1993 (Signet). He writes a monthly column for the Gregory House Gazette, an AIDS care newsletter published in Honolulu.

Gale Bournazian-Ybarra has been an educator for 23 years; as a 7th- and 8th-grade teacher in California and as a coordinator/team manager in creative problem solving organizations, for high school and middle school students, in California and Georgia.

Khyati Y. Joshi is an assistant professor in the Peter Sammartino School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.

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

Laura Sofen is a middle school writing teacher in Sparta, N.J. She is also a holistic health coach with a master's degree in teaching.

Cara Rene is a features writer, editor and strategic communications consultant. She lives in the greenest desert on earth in Tucson, AZ.