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Maureen Costello is director of Teaching Tolerance and member of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s senior leadership team. At Teaching Tolerance she provides resources for educators who work to reduce prejudice and make schools more inclusive and equitable for all students. She began her career as a history and economics teacher at Staten Island’s Notre Dame Academy High School. Costello has committed her career to fostering the ideals of democracy and citizenship in young people. After leaving the classroom she directed Newsweek's education program, which was dedicated to engaging high school and college students in issues of public concern. Immediately before joining Teaching Tolerance, she oversaw development of the 2010 Census in Schools program for Scholastic Inc. in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau. Costello is a graduate of the New School University and the New York University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.