Brynn Johnson has been an educator for the last fifteen years. She is currently a middle school teacher at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana where she teaches science and social studies. Brynn has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology with a minor in African and African American studies, as well as a master’s degree in education, each from the University of Notre Dame. During her time as an educator, she has worked with students from various backgrounds, and her focus has been to bring more inclusive content into classroom curriculum.

Brynn is an alumna of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Research Program. Her research focused on the ways in which New Zealand educators build resilience and collaborative problem-solving skills, specifically among females and minorities. Her program ended abruptly due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. Despite Fulbright’s early termination, Brynn was able to observe and learn much about resilience and collaboration from New Zealand’s collective response to the pandemic.

Susannah Remillard is a teacher at Cape Cod Lighthouse Public Charter School, a project-based middle school located in Harwich, Massachusetts. She teaches 6th-grade language arts and seminar classes on restorative agriculture, including developing and managing the Three Sisters Garden and the Roots and Shoots Club at her school. In 2019, she completed a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching program at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. The program included a capstone project on the importance of teaching difficult history and indigenous narratives and a TEDx on the same topic.

Susannah is currently engaged as a consultant to the National Museum of the American Indian to revise lessons around the first Thanksgiving. Her publications include “Toss Out the Tall Hats and Headdresses: Reconsidering the Teaching of the First Thanksgiving in Our Schools” for the Cape and Islands Historical Association and “Teachers as Change Agents: Returning Hard History to a Colonized World” published in Teachers on Fulbright: Reflections on Global Pedagogy and Practice. Her work on ABAR (Anti-bias/Anti-racist) teaching and decolonizing schools have been featured at national conferences and in instructional videos from First Book and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Susannah also works as a lead teacher and instructional coach for Campus Without Walls, Thinker Analytix, and the Qatar Foundation. Her work revolves around giving students the tools to examine the human journey, breaking down bias, and revising difficult history with the next generation of engaged thinkers and citizens.

Argine Safari teaches music at Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale, as well as serves as the director of music and organist at Christ Lutheran Church in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Argine is a speaker, presenter, choral clinician, and performer. She has been active as a director of music and vocal coach for numerous musicals and has performed in Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden. Prior to Pascack Valley, she served as the conductor and pianist for the Grammy award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus and was the co-founder and artistic director of the Youth Theater Company, Stage Scene and Song Performing Arts, whose mission was to transform and empower its participants through the arts. Argine’s students earned numerous awards and accolades, traveling from Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles to Canada, Italy, and Ireland, where their Irish song renditions were played on National Radio.

Argine is a Princeton University Distinguished Scholar, 2017 New Jersey State Teacher of the Year, a Grammy nominee, and a 2019 Fulbright Distinguished Teacher. Recently, Argine was featured in Dr. Bilha Fish’s book, Invincible Women: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants. She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from conservatories in Armenia and Russia, her B.S. degree is from Brooklyn College, CUNY, her M.Phil. is from Walden University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate.