Dr. Monique Redeaux-Smith is a scholar-activist-teacher currently on leave from the classroom. She taught middle school Social Studies for over eleven years on the South and West sides of Chicago while actively participating in community struggles for educational justice in her school and home communities. She currently works with an IL statewide teachers union to disrupt antiblack educational policies and advocates for antiracist practices that will improve the opportunities and life outcomes of Black and other historically marginalized students and communities.

Mark Schuller is a professor of Anthropology and Nonprofit and NGO Studies who has published eight books, including Humanity’s Last Stand, as well as over fifty scholarly articles or book chapters and as many blogs in public media. A former full-time community organizer in the Twin Cities, Schuller was chapter president of United Faculty Alliance, and convener of its Antiracist and Social Justice Task Force.