Mathangi Subramanian is a writer, educator, and activist who believes that stories have the power to change the world. A former American public school teacher, assistant vice president at Sesame Workshop, and senior policy analyst at the New York City Council, she has received numerous awards, including a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, a Teachers College Office of Policy and Research Fellowship, and a Jacob Javits Fellowship. She is the author of Bullying: The Ultimate Teen Guide, and her non-fiction and fiction have appeared in publications such as The Hindu Sunday Magazine, Quartz, Al Jazeera America, Feministing, Kahani, Skipping Stones, and The Hindu's Young World.
Jesse Ross Knutson, teacher and activist, is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit in the department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
