Amanda Diaz (she/her) is an educator and educational researcher who is concerned with humanizing and justice-oriented pedagogies. Part of her work looks at how teachers can have conversations around power, privilege, and oppression with young people. As a mother, she wants her child to learn about her Latina history, about the importance and beauty of diversity, inclusion, and equity, and how together we can fight for a better world.

Cevan Castle (she/her) is the co-founder of Kinderpublic, an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the design of accessible, inclusive, and sustainable public spaces, and the host of the Towards a Kinder Public podcast, which explores those topics through interviews focused on insights from other professions and lived experiences. She is the co-organizer of a parent resource group for neurodivergent and disabled learners in the Capital District (NY), and a member of the Climate Reality Project.

Charlotte Taylor (she/her) is a Chicago Public School teacher and a mom! She wants to make sure that diverse stories are told to kids of all backgrounds and that parents can foster healthy discussions.

Erica Svatek (she/her) has over twenty years of experience in education, both as a teacher and administrator. She is continually dedicated to encouraging young people in their learning journey through her work in urban, rural, and suburban settings, with non-profit youth orchestras, community-based STEAM programs, and public secondary history and geography education. As a mother of three, she is now dedicated to empowering her children’s education as a full-time homeschooling parent, community advocate for neurodiverse children and families, and alongside her husband, running a small sustainable homestead in Upstate New York. She is the co-organizer of a parent resource group for neurodivergent and disabled learners in the Capital District (NY).

Liza Minno (she/her) is the parent of an 8 year-old, a community organizer, and an educator with longstanding ties to social movements for collective liberation. She joined the Parent Advisory Board because she found Historicons’ offerings to be great and fun educational tools.

Pam Font-Gabel (she/her) is a welcomer, full of warmth and compassion. As a mother, wife, neighbor, friend, nonprofit leader, sister, and daughter. Pam embraces her surroundings with gusto. Her professional lives have included teaching, international development, environmental justice advocacy, solidarity partnering, refugee resettlement outreach, & doula work. Pam feels her best when traveling overseas, reading a (paper) book, meal-sharing with family/friends, doing a crossword (with autocheck), drinking Turkish coffee, & snuggling with her children.

Teri Brezner (she/her) comes from the “space in between”, she is a body of many cultures. Teri’s lived experience has taught her the art of belonging in liminal spaces, building bridges between worlds and cultivating a deep committed relationship with change. Teri is a program director, facilitator and coach with nearly two decades of experience using decolonized, liberatory practices and design thinking to support hundreds of social justice leaders around the world through personal, organizational and societal transformation. Her greatest lessons in leadership come from her daily practice of co-learning with her kiddo about how to be more human and co-creating a world where joy, dignity, self-determination and love are at the center.