She studies issues of equity looking for solutions to the problems of inequalities in schools and society. Her interest in discovering and reclaiming the voices of black women has resulted in ethnographic research about community activities whose life stories enrich multicultural education today. Email: pgroves@wsu.edu Wendy Dasler Johnson is an associate professor of English on the regional campus at WSU Vancouver. Her work in the history and theory of rehetoric provides a cultural and historical context for her research and publications on 19th-century American women's poetry. Email: wjohnson1@vancouver.wsu.edu