The Authors : Therese Quinn teaches art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She sits on the Local School Council of Nicholas Senn High School, is a founding member of Teachers Against Militarized Education (TAME), serves on the advisory board of AERA Chicago, and blogs about urban public (art) education at The Other Eye (http ://therese-othereye.blogspot.com). Erica R. Meiners, a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, is the author of Right to be Hostile : Schools, Prisons and the Making of Public Enemies (2007).
She participates in a number of local educational justice projects, including teaching and coordinating a high school for formerly incarcerated men and women.