Our Stories in Our Voices Workbook

Gregory Yee Mark is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. In January 1969, as an undergraduate student at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, he was a member of the Third World Liberation Front that went On Strike at the Berkeley cam[1]pus to create the discipline of Ethnic Studies. During this transformative student strike, he was tear-gassed, shot at by the police, and most importantly, he learned the true meaning of creating a relevant education for all people. He is a pioneer in the field of Asian American Studies. As an undergraduate student, Dr. Mark was a community organizer and activist in Berkeley and Oakland. He has continued this role as a community advocate and educator while as a professor at San Jose, Honolulu, and Sacramento.

Dale Allender, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of language and literacy in the Department of Teaching Credentials at California State University-Sacramento; and a mentor for the National Urban Alliance working directly with students, teachers and administrators in the Buffalo, New York and Minneapolis, Minnesota public school districts. He Is the recipient of a National Endowment for Humanities fellowship for the study of Native American Literature, and a National Association of Multicultural Education Media Award for his work on the television series The Expanding Canon. He is currently an Advisor to the Center for Black Literature and Teaching Tolerance. Dr. Allender is the founder NCTE West at UC Berkeley, which he directed from 2003-2015.