Stacey Greer is the Director of the History Project at UC Davis and previously work for the California Department of Education as the Education Programs Consultant for History-Social Science.  In addition, she taught both middle and high school in California. Her academic focus lies in World History and supporting teachers in bringing historical literacy to their classrooms.

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is the recent and future Chair and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has served on the national board of the Association for Asian American Studies for two terms and is a widely published scholar of the Asian American contemporary experience, with specific focus on Asian American activism. She is also the founding director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. Alongside her scholarly work, Dr. Rodriguez is a community organizer. Most recently, she helped support the formation of the Asian American Liberation Network, a non-profit organization, which initially convened at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to address rising anti-Asian hate as well as to ensure support for marginalized Asian American communities in the Greater Sacramento region.

Dr. Harvey Dong is a Continuing Lecturer of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. He is interested in research and writing about the evolution of Asian American and Third World social movement activism on campus and in the communities. He was also involved in the I-Hotel History Committee to write a timeline history of struggle.  He teaches Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley and was awarded the 2016 American Cultures Ronald Takaki Teaching Award.  He uses his community work experience to bring life to his Asian American history, Chinese American history and Contemporary Issues course. 

Dr. Beth Lew-Williams is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. She is a historian of race and migration in the United States, specializing in Asian American history. Her book, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), maps the tangled relationships between local racial violence, federal immigration policy, and U.S. imperial ambitions in Asia. Her next book project, tentatively titled John Doe Chinaman: Race and Law in the American West, considers the regulation of Chinese migrants within the United States during the nineteenth century.

Dr. Wendy Rouse is Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University and the Program Coordinator for the Social Science Teacher Preparation program. She is a historian whose scholarly research focuses on the history of women and children in the United States during the Progressive-Era. Her earlier book, The Children of Chinatown: Growing up Chinese American in San Francisco by UNC Press, considers the significant role of children in the history of Chinese America during the era of Chinese Exclusion.

Phil Sexton is the Executive Director of the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society in Tahoe City, Ca. He is also the historian/consultant for the 1882 Foundation. He has over 30 years in natural and historic resource management and interpretation with the US Forest Service, the US National Park Service, and California State Parks. Prepare your most random railroad and environmental questions for Phil, he knows all!

Dr. Cecilia Tsu is Professor of History at UC Davis. She is a U.S. historian with research and teaching interests in Asian American history, race and ethnicity, immigration, California and the American West. Her first book, Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley (Oxford University Press, 2013), is one of the first comparative historical studies of Asian immigrants in rural America. Professor Tsu’s current book project, Starting Over: Hmong Refugees and the Politics of Resettlement in Modern America, chronicles the evolution of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement policy and its intersection with the rise of modern conservatism in the United States from 1975 to 2000.

Katharine Cortes serves as Associate Director for the History Project at UC Davis. She holds a PhD in History from UC Davis specializing in the history of Women, Children, and Gender in America. For the past decade she has worked with classroom teachers to create diverse, inquiry based, and culturally sustaining history resources for K-12 students.

Julie is currently a Social Science Teacher in Roseville Joint Union High School District. Over the last decade, Julie has taught Social Science in grades 6-10 in the Sacramento region. In the last four years, Julie has taught Ethnic Studies at the high school level. Julie graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2011 with a BA in History and Minors in Asian American Studies and Education. In 2021, she received her Master’s in Multicultural Education.

As a veteran history teacher at Natomas Charter School's Performing and Fine Arts Academy Jeff Pollard works to foster critical thinking, mutual respect and civility while educating students about the history of the United States. Through his work on the One Voice Project he has fostered artistic connections between Sacramento students and students in China, Turkey, South Africa and Costa Rica. As a long time teacher leader of the U.C. Davis History Project Jeff specializes in helping teachers transfer their experiences in professional development to their classrooms.