Donna M. Gollnick is the Chief Academic Officer of TEACH-NOW, an online teacher education program in Washington, DC. She is co-author with Philip Chinn of Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, which is in its 10th edition and co-author of the textbook Introduction to the Foundations of American Education, in its 17th edition. Dr. Gollnick is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). She has been recognized by the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Purdue University and the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California as a Distinguished Alumni Award. AACTE honored her as an "Advocate for Justice" in 1998.