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Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong is a visiting lecturer in Educational Studies at Trinity College and a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an educational anthropologist whose research explores how educational inequities are produced, reproduced, and challenged in K-12 schools. She is licensed as a secondary social studies teacher and previously worked in after school programming.

Dr. Kathy Swan is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Kentucky. Swan has been a four-time recipient of the National Technology Leadership Award in Social Studies Education, innovating with web-based interactive technology curricula including the Historical Scene Investigation Project and Digital Docs in a Box. She is co-author of the book And Action! Doing Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom and children’s series Thinking Like A Citizen and co-editor of the book, Teaching the C3 Framework: A Guide to Inquiry Based Instruction in the Social Studies. She is

Alexandra Freidus is a doctoral candidate in Urban Education at New York University. Her research uses qualitative methods to explore how community stakeholders conceptualize student diversity, how school and district administrators enact educational policy, and how these local contexts relate to schools’ central work—teaching and learning. Alex’s work is informed by more than 15 years of professional experience teaching high school social studies and leading professional development in K–12 schools.