Barbara Miner has spent more than 40 years chronicling issues of social justice as a reporter, writer, editor and photographer in Milwaukee. Her work has appeared in outlets ranging from WUWM and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Last year she profiled five people, the “Hidden Homeless,” for Milwaukee Magazine. She also writes about immigration issues, eviction and culture, including the Riverwest 24 bike race. But it is the right of every American to get a quality education that stirs Barbara’s passions more than almost anything else. She won the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize for her book “Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City,” which looks at Milwaukee as the epicenter of public education reform, including bigger-picture issues of race and class.  She is the former editor of Rethinking Schools, a magazine that was started by her husband, longtime educator and activist Bob Peterson, who is also a subject in this project. Barbara’s activism has been honored with awards from the ACLU of Wisconsin and Marquette University. In recent years she has added photography to her portfolio, another way to tell stories about her hometown and places farther afield, such as Standing Rock. In 2008 she received the prestigious Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, which led to the photography book “Anatomy of an Avenue,” which documented North Avenue from the Milwaukee lakefront for 16 miles to Pewaukee. Another photo book, “This is what democracy looks like,” chronicles the Act 10 protests in Madison in 2011 sparked by former Gov. Scott Walker’s efforts to curtail collective bargaining rights.