Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University, USA. Dr. King served as the 2014-2015 President of AERA, chaired the AERA Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE), and served as editor of the resulting volume, Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century. Professor King was presented the Distinguished Career Contribution Award from the AERA Committee on Scholars of Color in Education. She has received fellowship awards from the American Council on Education, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and the National Institutes of Mental Health. She received the Distinguished Fellowship Award for Research and Leadership in Critical Studies in Education from the University of Auckland and "The Living Treasure of Africans in the Diaspora in Education and Social Sciences Award" for 20 Years of Participation in the Black Studies Research Center at the Federal University of Säo Carlos, Brazil. Ellen E. Swartz is an Independent Consultant and Presenter of workshops and courses on culturally-informed curriculum and pedagogy for public school staff, colleges, universities, teacher centers, publishers, and unions at the local, state, and national levels. Previous positions include Associate Professor and Frontier Chair in Urban Education, Nazareth College; Assistant Professor, Niagara University; Multicultural Curriculum Coordinator, and Professional Development Consultant, Rochester Teacher Center; Director of School Partnerships and Faculty, Pace University; and Coordinator, Multicultural Project, Rochester City School District.