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Elise is an IB English teacher at a public school in Minnesota. Toedt co-facilitates her school’s chapter of Dare 2 Be Real, a regional anti-racist student leadership group. As a poet, Elise views the classroom as a process-oriented space and is continually working to self-educate and engage in the learning process alongside students. Prior to teaching in the United States, Elise taught at an international IB school outside of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Kathie Durbin is a journalist and author living in the Pacific Northwest.

Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs is a freelance writer who lives in South Euclid, Ohio.

Jenee Darden is a freelance writer who lives in Los Angeles, Calif.

Bob Millard is a musician and freelance writer based in Nashville, Tenn.

Emma Coombs is a sixth-grade teacher for Fredericksburg City Schools in Virginia.

Stacey Gibson is a 15 year veteran teacher in the Chicagoland area.

Rebecca Newland is the Library of Congress 2013-14 Teacher in Residence.

Carol D. Lee has developed a framework for the design and enactment of curriculum that draws on the forms of prior knowledge that traditionally underserved students bring to classrooms. She is the author of Signifying as a Scaffold for Literary Interpretation: The Pedagogical Implications of an African American Discourse Genre. She is co-editor, with Peter Smagorinsky, of Neo-Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research. Lee recently completed a research project in a Chicago inner city high school that involves restructuring the English Language Arts curriculum in ways that build on social and

Emily is an elementary school educator. She worked for 4 years with abused and neglected children in a residential setting before becoming a school counselor in the Brighton 27J school district, where she has been employed for the past seven years.