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Mica Pollock, an anthropologist of education, studies how youth and adults struggle daily to discuss and address issues of racial difference, discrimination, and fairness in school and community settings. Her first book, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School explores the question: when it is helpful, and when is it harmful, to talk about racial patterns in schools? Her new book, Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools, builds on her experience working in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, where she investigated and

Ruth Shagoury Hubbard (Shagoury@lclark.edu) teaches language arts and literacy courses at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore.

Christopher Reardon writes about the arts and social justice for The New York Times and other major publications.

Heise is a sixth-grade social studies teacher living in Utah and working toward a Ph.d in education, culture and society.

Hiller is a mentor to first- and second-year teachers in Oregon and a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board.

The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation (DTPF) helps people and societies create cultures of peace by developing programs that focus on young people.Programs use new media and traditional methods to model ways young people can work, as Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has, to foster peaceful living and implement proven reconciliation and restorative practices.

For the last 12 years, Michelle Garcia has been an educator and policy advisor on issues of social justice and civil rights. In Boston, as Associate Regional Director at the New England Office of the Anti-Defamation League, she worked on anti-bias education and municipal anti-hate programs. Michelle began her career designing and implementing classroom-based interventions for underserved high school students in Southern California, after which she spent five years with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission as a Policy Advisor specializing in youth policy and programs. Over the