Fritz Fischer is Professor of History and History Education at UNC. He is the 1998 recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences award for outstanding teaching and the recipient of the Mortar Board Outstanding Teacher Award in 2003 and 2006.

Prof. Fischer received his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Previous to receiving his doctorate, Prof. Fischer taught middle school and high school history in California. He specializes in 20th century American cultural and diplomatic history. His most recent book is entitled Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s.

Tom Carson has spent more than 40 years as a teacher and administrator in secondary schools. His work as a teacher-educator through C.R.E.A.T.E. provides him opportunities to work with teachers in their classrooms modeling lessons, coaching and providing workshops that build capacity in teaching. Tom and his wife, Sharon, reside in Berthoud. They have two adult sons, Matthew and Christopher, who work in New York City.

Marene Baker is an archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration Rocky Mountain Region. She has a B.A. in history from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a M.A. in history and Public History from New Mexico State University. She is also a Certified Archivist. Prior to working for the National Archives, Marene worked as a curator for the National Park Service at Yosemite and Petrified Forest National Parks.

Chris Doyle has worked with Teaching American History programs since 2004. He approaches the discipline of history as a marriage between storytelling and analysis. Working with high school teachers, Chris tries to broaden their repertoire of stories and help them engage students in historical analysis. "Most high school kids love stories about people from the past, but they're usually at a loss for understanding how historians draw interpretive conclusions from them," Chris believes, "and the stories one finds in high school textbooks are often dry and sometimes obscure as much as they reveal." In Teaching American History workshops, Chris seeks to articulate illuminating stories about the American past while modeling lessons on the historian's craft.

Chris has split his career almost evenly between work as an academic historian and a high school "social studies" teacher. He has published articles in The Journal of Southern History, Perspectives-The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, andThe Historian. He has written for a general audience on public education and contemporary adolescence in op-ed pieces in The Hartford Courant and an essay inDedicated to the People of Darfur; Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope (Rutgers U. Press, 2009). He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Connecticut and currently teaches at Farmington High School, Conn. Chris's wife, Beverly Carolan, works as an emergency-room physician; they have two teenaged children, Emma and Lee.

Since 1989 Todd has worked as a professional evaluator for projects totaling over $53 million. He is an expert in evaluation, strategic planning, group facilitation, and management. His expertise further encompasses education-based programs, particularly after-school, mathematics, and science programs; family and child development; and community-wide service

Shanna Futral is an expert at designing cohesive projects and has helped school systems and community-based organizations nationwide secure over $44 million in grants since 2000.She has directed several education-based projects, including a USDE 21 Century Community Learning Centers project for inner city Ogden, Utah and a USDE Teaching American History project for suburban Davis County, Utah.Shanna has a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education-Social Studies from Kennesaw State University, Georgia, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.She is currently completing her Master's of Education degree, with an emphasis in History, from Weber State University, Utah.

Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College. She has an A.B. from Columbia University and an M.L.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and formerly served as a reference librarian at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She has written for Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History, College & Undergraduate Libraries, Colorado Libraries, The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, and Verbatim: The Language Quarterly

Leah Davis Witherow is the Archivist for the Starsmore Center for Local History at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, a municipally funded museum that documents the history and culture of the Pikes Peak Region. Since 2000 she has taught courses in U.S. History, Colorado History, Public History and the Material Culture of Colonial America at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs She holds an M.A. in History, is a graduate of the Modern Archives Institute at the National Archives, former President of the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists and has achieved archival certification through the Academy of Certified Archivists.

Amy Ziegler is an archivist in Special Collections at the Pikes Peak Library District. She came to Colorado Springs from Austin, Texas, where she completed her Masters in Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin. She also holds a B. A. in History from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Prior to moving to Colorado Springs, she worked at the Center for American History in Austin, Texas, as a project archivist for the Professional Touring Entertainment Collection.