Notes on Contributors
 

Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University. He is co-editor of Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States (Sense), Editor of Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (Beacon), and co-editor of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge). Permission granted for publication to The Teacher’s Voice.

Lorena Boswell is a two-time Humboldt County Poetry Slam finalist and 2008 national team member who believes in the power of the spoken word. She has spent over twenty years teaching people to embrace our differences and to serve our communities: first at San Francisco Unified School District and currently at Humboldt State University. 

Bridget Gage-Dixon’s work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Poet Lore, Gargoyle, and New York Quarterly as well as several other journals. She teaches English and lives with her three children in central New Jersey.

Kandi Maxwell is currently the vice chair of the parent committee for Resources for Indian Student Education (RISE) in Altura, California. She also sings on Thoz Womenz Drum, which is dedicated to preserving indigenous languages.

C.W. Owens practices law in Wooster, Ohio, and teaches English part-time at Ashland University, in Ashland, Ohio. His poetry has been published in a number of literary journals. 

Glenis Redmond, a native of Greenville, South Carolina has lived in North Carolina amongst the Cherokee Mountains for the last 15 years. She graduated from Erskine College and completed an MFA in Poetry at Warren Wilson College. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and an NC Literary Fellowship Recipient from the North Carolina Arts Council. Her Latest book of Poetry is titled Under the Sun. www.glenisredmond.com

Thomas Stein’s teaching career has taken him from the streets of Boston to the lakes of New Hampshire, over the mountains of Bulgaria and across the plains of North Dakota. His poems reflect his peripatetic lifestyle. He is currently an associate professor of English at Bismarck State College. 
 
Howard Stevenson is an Associate Professor in Applied Psychology and Human Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies coping in racially stressful classrooms and playgrounds. Black educational choice: Assessing the private and public alternatives to tradational K-12 public schools. Slaughter-Defoe, D. T.,   Stevenson, H. C., Arrington, E. G. & Johnson, D. J. (2012).
 

Howard Stevensonis an Associate Professor in Applied Psychology and Human Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies coping in racially stressful classrooms and playgrounds. Slaughter-Defoe, D. T., Stevenson, H. C., Arrington, E. G. & Johnson, D. J. (2012). Black educational choice: Assessing the private and public alternatives to traditional K-12 public schools.