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Alison Yager, J.D., is an attorney with over 25 years of experience advocating on behalf of women, children and marginalized individuals. She currently serves the executive director at Florida Health Justice Project, where she engages in a range of advocacy strategies to expand health care access and promote health equity for vulnerable Floridians. She came to Miami in 2018 from New York City. Alison began her career as a community organizer for the Children’s Defense Fund-NY. After graduating from UCLA School of Law’s program in public interest law and policy in 2001, she provided legal

Sarah Shear is an assistant professor at Penn State University-Altoona, where she teaches courses on social studies education and education foundations. Sarah earned her doctorate in learning, teaching and curriculum from the University of Missouri in 2014 with an emphasis in social studies education and indigenous studies. Her primary research focuses on teaching and learning K-12 social studies within indigenous contexts, including work with social studies educators in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Sarah's other research includes examining race and settler colonialism in K-12 social studies