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.
Sisulak is an instructional assistant at Grand Canyon University in Arizona. She has taught students in public, private, nonprofit and charter school environments.
Peggy Moss is a freelance writer and former civil rights attorney based in Freeport, Maine. She the author of the award-winning children's book Say Something.
Katy Swalwell, PhD, is an assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Her research interests focus on social justice pedagogy in communities of privilege, the teaching of controversial issues in elementary social studies curricula, and the politics of teaching. She is also the author of the upcoming book, Educating Activist Allies: Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite (Routledge, 2013).
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.
Brenda Randolph is the Director of AfricaAccess, Chairperson of the Africana Children's Book Award and Library Media Specialist with the Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools.
Barbara Munson, a member of the Oneida Nation who lives in Mosinee, Wisc., is chairperson of the Wisconsin Indian Education Association "Indian" Mascot and Logo Taskforce.
Kristina Rizga is an editor and publisher of the online Wiretap magazine. This essay is excerpted with permission from "Top 10 Youth Activism Victories in 2007."
Matthew Halpern is lucky enough to teach kindergarten. He left his former profession as a computer programmer and the hustle and bustle of the corporate world eight years ago to pursue his dream of teaching. Receiving his teaching certification through The University of Southern Maine’s alternative certification program ETEP, he then went on to earn his master’s in literacy education. His work in the classroom inspires his reflective writing.
Robert L. Reece is an assistant professor in the sociology department at the University of Texas at Austin, where his research revolves around the question "What is race?" as well as inquiries into the historical origins of racial inequality, colorism/skin tone stratification and racial fluidity. He received his PhD in sociology from Duke University, and he is from Leland, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the Mississippi Delta.
