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Linda Alston is author of the book, Why We Teach: Learning, Laughter, Love and the Power to Transform Lives and recipient of the 2006 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award.

Lydia Wright is a law fellow in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi office. Before joining the SPLC, Lydia graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and clerked for a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana. She also taught sixth-grade language arts in rural New Mexico and worked with refugee children as a Fulbright fellow in Jordan. Lydia is passionate about educational equity and dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.

Dr. Abby Bergman is principal of the Ralph S. Maugham School in Tenafly, N.J.

Kristina Torres is a veteran education beat writer. She works for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Amy Gardner is the art teacher at Kirbyville Middle School in Kirbyville, Mo.

Joyce Milambiling is a professor in the English Department at University of Northern Iowa.

Patrice O’Neill is the CEO and executive producer of Not In Our Town.

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, a poet and educator, is currently a master's candidate in the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.