Jacob Wheeler is a freelance journalist who splits his time between Chicago and Michigan. He is an assistant editor at In These Times magazine and has written a book on the Guatemalan adoption industry.
Kauanoe Kamana is a founding member of 'Aha Punana Leo. The article was adapted by permission from Native Americas (Summer 2000), a journal of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.
William Wilson is a founding member of 'Aha Punana Leo. The article was adapted by permission from Native Americas (Summer 2000), a journal of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.
Bao Ong is a freelance writer who lives in New York City. Before becoming a contributing writer at The New York Times, he covered education for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Sara Schmidt is a writer, homeschooling mom, artist, wife and activist from the St. Louis area. Sara has taught in various capacities, from a European at-risk program and college support services to American Red Cross service corps. She writes for the Institute for Democratic Education in America and is inspired by nonconformist teachers, guerrilla learning, free schools, peaceful revolution, living outside the box and above all, kids.
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.
For more 15 years Ramirez has been an activist for farmworkers and immigrant rights. She is currently acting deputy director at Centro del los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (Center for Migrant Rights), based in Baltimore, Md. She was senior staff attorney and project director of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She is the daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers.
Jeremy is a writer and public school educator. He has taught English for nearly two decades since graduating from Middlebury College in Vermont. He is passionate about using the classroom and the study of literature to help students navigate a complex world. He writes frequently about education, parenting, running and the world as a whole. More of his writing can be found on his blog, One Man’s Field.
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
Angela P. Dodson is the chief executive officer and founder of Editorsoncall LLC., www.editorsoncall.com, which offers free-lance editorial services and consulting. Dodson has most recently been an online editor and book reviewer for DIVERSE: Issues In Higher Education, diverseeducation.com and diversebooks.net. She has also edited special magazine supplements for DIVERSE and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is the former executive editor of Black Issues Book Review. Angela is a former senior editor and former Style editor for the New York Times. Dodson has edited and ghost-written books
