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Leslie has been an elementary educator in central Virginia since 2008. As both a fourth-grade teacher and diversity resource teacher, she collaboratively designs and co-facilitates a variety of professional developments on multicultural education and culturally responsive instructional strategies. Wills-Taylor also organizes diversity awareness events that build sustainable home-school partnerships. She is one of the recipients of the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching. She can be reached via Twitter @LeslieWillsTay1.

Chris Hoeh is a second-grade teacher at Cambridge Friends School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has developed an academically rigorous, multi-disciplinary, yearlong social studies curriculum that follows the creation of clothing from cotton. Each step in this process is connected to historical and contemporary struggles for social justice. Hoeh has led anti-racist study groups and shares his substantial experience as a mentor to practicing teachers. He is also a recipient of the 2014 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Rhonda Thomason is a National Board Certified educator who taught in public schools for 26 years.

Elizabeth Hunt, Ph.D., is a freelance writer and adoptive mother who lives in South Bend, Ind.

Reid Chapman teaches language arts and social studies at Asheville Middle School in Asheville, N.C.

Dave Orphal teaches World History and Civics at Zoe Barnum High School in Eureka, Calif.

Kathy Briccetti works as a school psychologist and freelance writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Karen Bovard is Director of the Creative Arts Program at Watkinson School in Hartford, Conn.

Wickham is a Teaching Tolerance blogger and assistant principal at Lincoln Magnet School in Springfield, Ill.

George Wood is the principal at Federal Hocking Middle and High School in Stewart, Ohio.