Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. has pursued and achieved success in the world of academia, business, diversity and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC in order to provide comprehensive diversity and cultural competency trainings/workshops for K-12 schools, community organizations, businesses and colleges/universities all across the nation/world. Dr. Moore has presented at national/international conferences focusing on issues of diversity, youth, community, education, cultural competency, leadership, white privilege and other forms of oppression. Eddie is a dynamic, personal diversity consultant and public speaker. His presentations are interactive, fun, challenging, informative and practical. While doing all of this, he serves as the Director of Diversity at Brooklyn Friends School in Brooklyn, NY. Marguerite Parks student taught on a special program to teach in the inner city (Cooperative Teacher Education Program. CUTE) in Kansas City. She then returned to Kansas City, Kansas where she taught high school English, Drama and Debate. Seeing the need to learn more about how schools work, Marguerite left public schools to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received a Master′s Degree in Educational Policy. To become better prepared to train teachers to work in a multicultural setting she attended the University of Iowa where she received a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in the Foundations of Education and Minority Education. Before coming to University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, she taught for nine years in the Education Department at Ripon College, Ripon, WI. Looking at the scholarship and service Marguerite am drawn to, the single guiding focus is the issue of equity. Being in a field of Multicultural Education, she is consistently drawn to a variety of issues that hinder students and teachers form advancing an equitable system. Although her research varies from Multicultural issues to ESL/Bilingual to Accelerated Reading, the focus remains the same. The guiding component is equal educational opportunity for all students. In the past five years she has written and had accepted/published six refereed journal articles and one book chapter. She has submitted one article from a paper presentation at an international conference and has a book prospectus on teaching grammar submitted. In addition to the publications she has papers presented at three international conferences, four national conferences, six state conferences and five local conferences Ali Michael′s current research focuses on supporting teachers to mitigate the unintentional, pervasive effects of institutional and individual racism in their classrooms. She also studies how white families racially socialize their children. Ali has made two films, both of which portray students discussing their experiences of race. She is also the author of "My Scar, My Road," the biography of South African feminist activist Gertrude Nonzwakazi Sgwentu, which demonstrates the long term effects of racism and White supremacy on one woman growing up under Apartheid. Ali is also a Friends Council on Education presenter and a guest blogger for the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Education.
