MacArthur Award winner Lisa Delpit is the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University. The author of the bestselling Other People's Children and "Multiplication Is for White People," co-editor (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) of The Skin That We Speak, and editor of Teaching When the World Is on Fire (all published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Christopher Emdin is the Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Professor of Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is the Director of Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the STEAM DREAM Idea Lab. He is the author of numerous award-winning works; including the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood . . . and the Rest of Ya'll Too. He lives in New York City.