Authors

Deborah Menkart is co-director of the Zinn Education Project, the executive director of Teaching for Change, and co-editor of Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (Teaching for Change).

Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone /Costanoan-Esselen Nation of California, and is also of Chumash and Jewish ancestry.

Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law. He is the author of numerous books including The Color of Law.

Adam Sanchez (asanchez@zinnedproject.org) teaches at Harvest Collegiate High School in New York City. He is an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and a Zinn Education Project teacher leader with a focus on the Teach Reconstruction campaign.

Ruth Shagoury teaches new and veteran teachers at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She has written numerous books and articles, including Living the Questions: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers and Raising Writers: Understanding and Nurturing Young Children’s Writing Development.

Tim Swinehart teaches at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, and writes regularly for Rethinking Schools magazine, including  “‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’: A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change.”

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca has taught high school social studies since 2000. She is on the editorial board of Rethinking Schools and is a Zinn Education Project Writer and Organizer. 

Moé Yonamine was born in Okinawa and moved with her family to the United States when she was seven years old. She teaches in Portland, Oregon and is a Rethinking Schools editorial associate.