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Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson teaches middle school humanities and interdisciplinary studies at a place-based charter school in Portland, Ore. Originally from rural Vermont, Anderson has also taught nature studies to urban middle school students in the California Redwoods, career skills to at-risk youth on an educational farm in Vermont and Civics and Global Studies at an independent school in Maryland. She earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies at Bard College and a masters in education in Integrated Learning from Antioch New England Graduate School.
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Luis C. Moll

Luis C. Moll is a professor and associate dean at the College of Education at the University of Arizona. His research addresses the connections among culture, psychology and education, especially in relation to the education of Latino children in the U.S. Among other studies, he has analyzed the quality of classroom teaching, examined literacy instruction in English and Spanish, studied how literacy takes place in the broader social contexts of household and community life and attempted to establish pedagogical relationships among these domains of study. He is perhaps best known for coining
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Nel Noddings

Nel Noddings is currently the Jacks Professor Emeriti of Child Education at Stanford University; she also holds the John W. Porter Chair in Urban Education at Eastern Michigan University. From 1949 to 1972, Noddings worked as an elementary and high school teacher and administrator in New Jersey public schools. During that time, she conducted research in mathematics education, though she later changed her focus to the broader realm of educational theory and philosophy. Noddings was deeply influenced by her own experience of being taught. In her writings, she has listed three categories of
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Amber Strong Makaiau

Amber is the director of Curriculum and Research at the University of Hawai‘i Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education and an associate specialist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education Institute for Teacher Education Secondary Program. She is a dedicated practitioner of philosophy for children in Hawai‘i and achieved National Board Certification while teaching secondary social studies in the Hawaii State Department of Education for over 10 years. In 2011 she won the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching. Her current projects
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Joseph L. Graves Jr.

Graves is the associate dean for research and professor of biological sciences at the Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering, administered by North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
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Margaret Sasser

Margaret joined Teaching Tolerance as an intern and later became the Teaching Tolerance fellow. Sasser's work was integral to the development and maintenance of Perspectives for a Diverse America in her role as a research associate.