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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.

Chelsea is currently in her 12th year of teaching at Jackson Middle School in Jackson, Missouri. She has taught language arts for several years and developed a knack for cross-curricular instruction. She enjoys developing practical classroom strategies that save teachers time and energy, while still increasing student achievement. Her first book, an instructional strategies book about the use of word sorts to improve vocabulary instruction in the content areas, is being published by Scholastic in January 2018.

Eshe Price is a Ph.D. candidate in urban education in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education at Rowan University. Her dissertation examines the schooling experiences of Black girls in predominantly white, suburban and rural communities through mixed-methods research. Through her research, Eshe aims to position Black girls as the experts to guide support for Black girls in schools. Recently, she received dissertation funding from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division G. Additionally, Eshe is interested in the use of critical quantitative