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Thomas Bean is a professor in literacy/reading. Dr. Bean is considered a leading scholar in content area literacy. He is the co-author of 15 books, 21 book chapters, and 88 journal articles. He currently serves as co-editor of the International Reading Association Literacy Studies Series centering on the publication of high quality research monographs. He was recently honored with the UNLV College of Education Distinguished Research Award for his studies of reader responses to multicultural young adult literature in content area classrooms. He is the co-author of the International Reading

Judy Nichols is a reporter for The Arizona Republic.

Sam Chaltain is the coordinator of the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Schools Project in Arlington, Va.

Jeffrey Morgan is an English teacher at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

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.

Brandon Baldwin is a schools and curriculum coordinator for the Civil Rights Team Project for the office of the Attorney General in Maine.

Courtney is the Director of the Malone Center for Excellence in Teaching and Associate Professor of Teacher Leadership at the University of Montevallo. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Feminist Teacher and The Urban Review. She is the recipient of the 2013 National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Presidential Chapter Award and chairs the Advancing Multicultural Learning Committee for NAME.

Sara Cohan is the 2001-2 Teaching Tolerance Research Fellow.