Kirsten Kumpf Baele is the University of Iowa's Anne Frank Initiative director and Associate Professor of Instruction in German. Her teaching and scholarship address youth agency and expression, trees in the arts, and contested spaces. She brought the 13th Sapling from Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree to the university.
Waltraud Maierhofer is a Professor of German and Global Health Studies at the University of Iowa. Her recent research and teaching address representations of reproductive and disability rights in German and global fiction and film. She's received Alexander von Humboldt awards and translated The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau (2022) by Swiss novelist Eveline Hasler.
Doyle Stevick is the Executive Director at the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. He was a Fulbright scholar to Estonia in 2003 and 2013-14 and has co‑edited two books on citizenship education and three books about Holocaust education a
