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Carrie Gaffney, who spent twelve years as a secondary English teacher, is the managing editor of The Educational Forum and the copy editor for Dark House Press. Carrie holds an undergraduate degree in English Education and an MFA in creative writing. As a writer, she regularly contributes to Kentucky Monthly and Punchnel’s. She is also active in the Hoosier Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, and Second Story, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that is dedicated to bringing creative writing to underserved schools. Her work is represented by Katie Shea of the Donald Maass

Sarah L. Webb is currently a Ph.D. student in English education with interests in digital media, race and gender. She is also the founder of ColorismHealing.org, where she hosts an international poetry contest for youth and adults. Sarah has previously taught English language arts and college composition courses and has been a youth mentor for several years. In addition to teaching, she’s worked as a freelance writer and a digital media manager for local news and TV stations. The guiding mission of Sarah’s work is to help young people recognize and employ their agency through multiple

Peggy Frezon is a freelance writer living in upstate New York. She also writes reading comprehension tests and tutors ESOL.

Brian Elliot recently graduated from Parkway School District in St. Louis, Mo., and is currently a freshman at Stanford University.

Kelly Chandler, a former English and social studies teacher, is pursuing her doctorate in literacy at the University of Maine.

Charles Doersch is an instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ashley Lauren Samsa teaches high school English in the south suburbs of Chicago. She also does some freelance writing.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote The Geometer of Race, a discussion of origins of racial catagorizations in the 18th century.

Megan Fuciarelli currently serves as the Director of Curriculum in Indian Springs District #109, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois.

Marcy is a middle and high school Spanish teacher at Watkinson School in Hartford, Connecticut. During a seven-year hiatus from teaching she served as a college admissions counselor and earned her M.Ed. in curriculum. Beyond the campus, she delivers workshops at regional and national professional conferences, where she applies her training as a Critical Friendship coach and facilitator.