Karen Murphy is the Director of International Strategy for Facing History and Ourselves. She is based in New York City and grateful for the opportunity to work with educators and representatives from civil society organizations across the globe. In addition to our programmatic work, Karen is immersed in a longitudinal study of adolescents from divided societies with identity-based conflicts (South Africa, Northern Ireland, and the United States), and the ways these young people develop as civic actors, including the factors that impede and support their development. Karen's doctoral work focused on the role of race and racial violence in the construction of United States national identity.

Dylan Wray is the co-founder and executive director of Shikaya, a non-profit civil society organization that recognizes the crucial role that teachers can play in deepening and strengthening South Africa’s democracy. Since 2003, Dylan has been the project coordinator of Facing the Past – Transforming our Future, a partnership with Facing History and Ourselves that holds educator workshops and seminars throughout South Africa, and provides resources and support to teachers and curriculum advisers across the country.