MAYA PARK taught seventh-grade history and coached teachers for six years in Brooklyn, New York, where she grew up and still lives in beloved community. Currently, she is a teacher-educator through Harvard’s Teaching and Teacher Leadership Program and a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Urban Education program, exploring the intersection of teacher-mentorship and abolitionist freedom dreaming.

JAMIE WILBER has been teaching in New York City public high schools since 2009. Jamie is best known for teaching classes about horror movies.

JIM BENTLEY is an educator, a National Geographic Explorer and Education Fellow, a member of the PBLWorks national faculty, and a KQED Media Literacy Innovator and PBS Digital Innovator All-Star who empowers students to understand the world and how it works so they can make it a better place.

CAROLINE DARIN is in her eighth year teaching physics and AP environmental science at Brooklyn Preparatory High School and is a PhD candidate studying gender and science education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

COREY SCHOLES is a lifelong educator and proud mom.

GLENETTA BLAIR KRAUSE helps students and teachers in Cincinnati find their voice.

JARED FOX, PhD, taught for seventeen years in New York City public schools and is the founder of the recently launched Fox EduConsulting.

HOLLY SPINELLI is an advocate for inclusive, culturally responsive educational practices, and she strives to co-create community-inspired work as a public high school English teacher and as an executive board member of the NewYork State English Council.

RICK AYERS is a former high school teacher at Berkeley High School and is a professor emeritus of education at the University of San Francisco.

DR. BRIAN MOONEY is a teacher-educator, a poet, a scholar, and an author from New Jersey who is currently an assistant professor of literacy education at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

TESSA BROWN, PhD, is the CEO and cofounder of Germ Network, a start-up fostering healthy digital communication.

DR. IAN P. LEVY is an associate professor in school counseling as well as the chairperson of the Department of Counseling and Therapy at Manhattan College, and he is an emcee.

ADAM WEINSTOCK is a lifelong educator committed to the unrealized potential of public education and is passionate about helping teachers be as impactful as possible. Raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he has taught, coached teachers, and helped lead schools in New York City, and he now continues the pursuit of his calling from just north of NYC.

JEFF EMBLETON is executive director of Forest & Tree (www.forestandtree.org), an organization in Oakland, California, working to support equitable opportunities for young people to have transformative outdoor experiences.

ADAM SEIDEL is a third-generation educator, a parent (of two humans and many plants), and a partner who lives with his family in his childhood home and roots for the Celtics.

ALI MICHAEL, PhD, uses her life, parenting, and research to engage the inquiry “What can white people do about racism?” She is the co-director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators and the author of multiple books, including Our Problem, Our Path: Collective Antiracism for White People (2022).

LISA GRAUSTEIN (she/her) is a queer mother, artist, former middle and high school teacher, Quaker minister, and DEI facilitator of European and Persian heritage living on Neponset Band of the Massachusett land.

MARGUERITE W. PENICK, PhD, is a professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a co-editor of several books, including The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys and Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls.

KYLE P. STEELE is an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Literacy, and Social Foundations at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.

TOM RADEMACHER is the 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year, a middle school teacher of sixteen years, and an author of two books on teaching (with jokes and swear words).

DAVID H. CLIFFORD takes on whatever form is needed to challenge white dominant culture in schools: designer of tools to break status quo rule, shop teacher, leadership coach, sparkly ray of sunshine, edu-agitator, or a mere catalyst for people’s equity-centered creative courage.

JUSTIN C. COHEN is a Brooklyn-based dad, author, and activist.

ELI TUCKER-RAYMOND is research associate professor at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development.

JONATHAN OSLER spent twenty years as a public school teacher and principal in Brooklyn and the Bay Area and cofounded two parent groups in Oakland, California, that organize for educational equity. His essays on education, whiteness, and parenting can be found at www.jonathanosler.com.