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Lynea is a pioneer in the field of health and wellness education for youth. Her Yoga Calm program was developed in a behavior classroom in a rural Oregon elementary school over 16 years ago. The program is now being used with tens of thousands of children around the world in diverse settings, such as classrooms, clinics and psychiatric hospitals like the Mayo Clinic.

Linda Alston is author of the book, Why We Teach: Learning, Laughter, Love and the Power to Transform Lives and recipient of the 2006 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award.

Lydia Wright is a law fellow in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi office. Before joining the SPLC, Lydia graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and clerked for a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana. She also taught sixth-grade language arts in rural New Mexico and worked with refugee children as a Fulbright fellow in Jordan. Lydia is passionate about educational equity and dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.

Dr. Abby Bergman is principal of the Ralph S. Maugham School in Tenafly, N.J.

Kristina Torres is a veteran education beat writer. She works for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Amy Gardner is the art teacher at Kirbyville Middle School in Kirbyville, Mo.

Joyce Milambiling is a professor in the English Department at University of Northern Iowa.

Patrice O’Neill is the CEO and executive producer of Not In Our Town.