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Joanna is a 2014 graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was the spring 2014 editor of the College Heights Herald. She is also the former new media associate for Teaching Tolerance. Williams is currently an Emerson Congressional Hunger Fellow in Washington, D.C.

Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin. She is credited with coining the term "culturally responsive pedagogy," and is one of the leaders in the field of culturally relevant teaching. Her book, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, offers a close look at the qualities to be found in teachers whose African American students achieve academic success. She is a past president of the American Educational Research Association. Among her accomplishments as AERA president was a presidential address that