by Joan Hinde Stewart, President Emerita, Hamilton College
by Deborah Jung, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District
by Luis Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2014
by Kathryn Hill, President, The Levine Museum of the New South
by Scot Smith, 53, school librarian
by Chaney Hill, 25, PhD Graduate student in English, Literature at Rice University
by Katie Ireland Kuiper, 29, Ph.D. Candidate
by Lauren Eastland, 52, PhD Candidate, University of California, Davis