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Nefertari Yancie, Ph.D., teaches eighth grade social studies in Birmingham, Alabama. She received her doctorate from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in education studies in diverse populations. Her research focuses on developing students’ historical empathy skills as a way of understanding the past’s connection and relevance to the present.

Lee Anne Bell, Ed.D., is the author of Storytelling for Social Justice, co-editor and author of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, and producer of 40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk?, a documentary film that focuses on the first class of Black students to desegregate a Mississippi high school, streamed at https://vimeo.com/537431634.

Jaci Jones (she/her) is a social justice educator with experience as a professional learning facilitator with Learning for Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and as a high school history teacher at John F Kennedy Memorial High School in Iselin, NJ. She completed her undergraduate education at Penn State University where she majored in Secondary Education and Social Studies, and minored in History and Dance. With a passion for human rights, Jaci completed her Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kean University where she now adjuncts, training teachers how to teach