Brown v. Board of Education Experts

Bonnie Thornton Dill - professor and chair, Women's Studies, and director of the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity.
Expertise: curriculum transformation; African-American women and families; work, family and poverty; the intersections of race and gender.

Credentials: Previously served as a member of the National Panel for the Association of American Colleges and Universities´ Project, "American Commitments: Diversity, Democracy and Liberal Learning." Consultant to several colleges and universities on their efforts to enhance and diversify curriculum. Author of numerous books and articles including Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family among Black Female Domestic Servants. She is the founder of the Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis.
Contact: 301-405-6877 (office); email: btdill@umd.edu
Web site: www.womensstudies.umd.edu/dill.htm

Martin Johnson - associate dean for urban and minority education and director of MIMAU (Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education) at the University of Maryland.
Expertise: MIMAU developed the Bladensburg Project in concert with Prince Georges County schools. Its aim is to help improve the standardized testing performances of students at Bladensburg High School, William Wirt Middle School, and Rogers Heights Elementary School. Johnson has extensive experience training teachers of mathematics.

Credentials: a former Mathematics Educator of the Year, Johnson has written numerous articles and collaborated on and co-authored numerous books about the teaching of mathematics. He has presented his views on teaching mathematics around the world, and Johnson began his career as a middle school math teacher.
Contact: (301)-405-3l17 (office); mj13@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.education.umd.edu/institutesandcenters/MIMAUE/

Jeff Milem - associate professor and graduate program director for the higher education administration program, Department of Education Policy and Leadership, College of Education, University of Maryland.
Expertise: nationally recognized expert in the area of racial dynamics in higher education. Conducted research for the Harvard Civil Rights Project, the American Council on Education, and the American Educational Research Association´s Panel on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education.

Credentials: Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities in which he argues that affirmative action does work and is needed to ensure racial disparity on college campuses. Co-author of Enacting Diverse Learning Environments: Improving the Campus Climate for Racial/Ethnic Diversity and the Special Focus Section of the American Council on Education´s Minorities in Higher Education, 1999-2000: Seventeenth Annual Status Report.
Contact: 301-405-2875 (office); jfmilem@umd.edu
Web site: www.education.umd.edu/Depts/EDPA/faculty/milem.html

Ron Walters - professor of government and politics and director of the African American Leadership Institute, Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland.
Expertise: Prof. Walters is one of the top academic experts and media commentators in the country on African American involvement in electoral politics, past and present. Issues include: elections, the role of African American voters in this and past elections, African American candidates, presidential leadership, African American leadership, minority voter turnout and why millions of Americans don´t vote at all.

Credentials: A nationally-known commentator, Prof. Walters writes a weekly syndicated column that appears in hundreds of papers nationally. He is the author of numerous articles and books.
Contact: 301-405-1787 (office); 301-421-5919 (home); rwalters@academy.umd.edu
Web site: www.academy.umd.edu/Election2000/Ron_Walters.htm

John B. Williams - professor of practice, College of Education, University of Maryland.
Expertise: race discrimination in higher education and the implementation of federal finance, regulatory and desegregation policies in higher education.

Credentials: Author of Race Discrimination in Public Higher Education: Interpreting Federal Civil Rights Enforcement, 1964-1996 and editor of Desegregating America´s Colleges and Universities: Title VI Regulation of Higher Education. A member of the Public Broadcasting Service´s Learning Services Committee. Has been a consultant to the NAACP´s Legal Defense and Education Fund and an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education.
Contact: 301-405-1514 (office); jbwms@wam.umd.edu
Web site: www.education.umd.edu/Depts/EDPA/faculty/williams.html