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Erica Guillama is a tenth year kindergarten through grade five general and choral music teacher in Blackwood, N.J.

Naomi oversees the Southern Poverty Law Center’s legal and advocacy work on behalf of immigrants in the Deep South. She represents clients who have experienced wage theft, discrimination, human trafficking and other abuses. Tsu was counsel for immigrant workers in David v. Signal, one of the largest labor trafficking cases brought in the United States, which resulted in a $14 million jury verdict and for which her team was awarded Public Justice’s 2015 Trial Lawyer of the Year award.

Ijeoma Njaka is a writer and education professional committed to social justice. As an undergraduate student, she spent summers teaching art, mathematics, and Swedish classes to bright, urban middle schoolers at LearningWorks at Blake: A Breakthrough Program in Minneapolis, Minn. She graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and American Institutions. She created U.S. history curriculum with a people’s history approach at Teaching for Change in Washington, D.C. Most recently, she worked at a Boston nonprofit to mentor first-generation college-bound, low-income

Drawing on her experience as the child of Jamaican immigrants, born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Patrice enjoys exploring issues of race, immigration and belonging. Her essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Sweet: A Literary Confection and the online editions of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her radio commentaries have appeared on Charlotte, North Carolina’s NPR station WFAE 90.7.

Jeff Sapp is a professor of education at California State University Dominguez Hills and a frequent contributor to Teaching Tolerance.

Trudy Moss, a 2001 Teaching Tolerance research fellow, is a media specialist at North Wilkesboro Elementary School in Boone, N.C.

Darlene Koenig is a freelance education writer and editor living in Plano, Texas. You can follow her at twitter.com/koenigeducation.

Walshaw is a master naturalist, retired business executive and a school volunteer who teaches about nature. He lives in Oklahoma.

Victoria Lim is a multi-platform, multifaceted journalist based in Florida. You can follow her at on twitter and facebook.

Joe is a middle school teacher with ten years experience working in a small progressive public school in Hoboken, NJ.