For those of us who work on JSD, each issue is a learning journey. We alk about the meaning of thevwe use, from whom we want to learn, which articles to feature. For some topics, we’re confident that we have solid, in-house expertise. For others, we acknowledge our need to engage in study and discussion. Social justice is certainly one of those topics. Our writers were among our primary teachers on this topic. The research done by Stephanie Hirsh and Shirley Hord to write the chapter from which “Building hope, giving affirmation” (p. 10) was adapted was enormously beneficial to our discussions about what we mean by the term “social justice.” As with any topic, the perspectives and voices of the people who fill these