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Philip Dray has been a contributor to *The Boston Globe*, *The New York Times*, *The New York Post*, and *Mother Jones*. From 1994-2000 he was a staff writer at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He has been an adjunct faculty member at the New School, teaching an undergraduate course, "The History of the Civil Rights Movement." Dray is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Minnesota, with a concentration in American Studies, and is a veteran of workshops in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota and Harvard University. Philip Dray is the author of *At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America*, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and made him a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and *Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America,* and the coauthor of the New York Times Notable Book *We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi*. He lives in Brooklyn.

Anthony M. Sammarco is a noted historian and author of more than forty books on the history of Boston and surrounding cities and towns. Sammarco teaches history at the Urban College of Boston.

Jill McDonough has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have appeared in *The Threepenny Review*, *The New Republic*, and *Slate*. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Allistair Witten is an educator from Cape Town, South Africa. He is currently a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a teaching fellow at Harvard's Principals' Center where he assists with the training and development of aspiring principals. Mr. Witten has been an educator for twenty-two years in South Africa's township schools, and spent the last ten of these as school principal. Recently, Witten has focused on extending the functions of schools and making them sites for community development and transformation. His work has contributed to the Safe Schools Program in Cape Town, which adopts a community-oriented approach to engaging problems that negatively affect the functioning of schools.