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Maureen Costello, retired director of Teaching Tolerance, has been a teacher and educational leader for over 40 years. Before joining the Southern Poverty Law Center, Costello worked for Scholastic, Inc. and directed the Newsweek Education Program. She began her career as a history and economics teacher at Notre Dame Academy High School in Staten Island. Throughout her career, Costello has been committed to fostering the ideals of democracy and citizenship in young people. She is a graduate of the New School University and the New York University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. In

Barrie Moorman is a high school history teacher at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. She engages her students by taking them out of the classroom and into the community, including a civil rights tour of the South to empower her students through history. Moorman also emphasizes critical thinking and learning through stories. She facilitates Race and Equity in Education Seminars in D.C. She is also a receipient of the 2014 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Willis D. Hawley is a professor of education and public affairs at the University of Maryland, where he served as dean of the College of Education from 1993 to 1998. He has taught at Yale and Duke, and is former dean of the Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt. Hawley has published numerous books, articles and book chapters dealing with teacher education, school reform, urban politics, political learning, organizational change, school desegregation and educational policy. His most recent research deals with the professional development of teachers, the education of teachers (in the