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Rusul Alrubail is a writer on education, teaching and learning. She is also the editor of Medium’s The Synapse publication on learning, teaching and education. Her work focuses on teacher development and training, English language learners and pedagogical practices in and out of the classroom. Before taking up freelance writing, Alrubail was a professor at Seneca College in Ontario for five years. She taught college English and Literature to domestic and international students. Alrubail is an educator who is passionate about using social media as a digital learning tool to build networks and

Lisa M. Weinbaum teaches seventh-grade literature in southern New Mexico. This is her 18th year of teaching.

David Holthouse is the Senior Editor of SPLC’s Intelligence Project a freelance writer who lives in Montgomery, Ala.

Warren Hynes is a teacher and free-lance writer living in North Plainfield, N.J. You can follow his blog.

Vanessa D’Egidio is a second-grade teacher in New York City and member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board.

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

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

Samantha has been a social studies teacher in New York City public schools since 2007. During this time, she has taught a wide range of history, art, health, research and writing courses to high school students. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Teachers Who Make a Difference Award from Scholarship Plus.

Cook has taught composition courses at Auburn University, where he also received his M.A. in English with a concentration in rhetoric and composition. He is passionate about intersectional activism and about having tough-but-necessary conversations to advance social justice. He considers love and compassion to be integral to his work and activism.

Anna is the assistant director and chief of staff at St. Norbert College’s Cassandra Voss Center (CVC), which focuses on transformation through initiatives related to race, class, gender and identity. Czarnik-Neimeyer grew up living and working at camps for 22 years before becoming the national events coordinator at Holden Village, an ecumenical learning and retreat center in the Cascade Mountains. In addition to her CVC work, Anna writes, facilitates and thinks about white anti-racism and allyship, millennial Christianity, feminist pedagogy, intersectional identity and vocation in intentional