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A member of the National Academy of Education, Dr. Sonia Nieto has devoted her professional life to questions of diversity, equity, and social justice in education. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she began her teaching career in 1966 in an intermediate school in Brooklyn, later moving to P.S. 25 in the Bronx, the first fully bilingual school in the Northeast. Her university career started in the Puerto Rican Studies Department at Brooklyn College.

Mark Kadel and his family worked for nine years as missionaries in the Balkan area of Eastern Europe, where they assisted and provided humanitarian assistance to victims of civil war and ethnic persecution in Albania, Greece and Kosovo.  After returning to the United States in 2002, Mark started working with World Relief as his experience overseas greatly enabled his world perspective to the needs of refugees and victims of human trafficking from around the world.  As the North Carolina Director, Mark oversaw programs that assisted in the resettlement of refugees and Victims of Hu