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Jennifer Rowe is the Executive Director of Educational Equity for Indian Prairie School District in Aurora, Illinois. She has a strong passion for equity work and believes that through building relationships and providing opportunity, real change can occur. Rowe is the co-founder of the Valley Runway, a program that provides prom dresses and tuxedos to students, has partnered with FermiLab to create a summer STEM camp for Black and Latinx students, and has collaborated with 360 Youth Services to provide school-based mental health services in her district’s middle and high schools.

Patty Johnson is a clinical health psychologist who enjoys creating art related to spirituality, culture, justice and other bizarre and beautiful intricacies of life. She's the author of Where the Tiger Dwells, a memoir about her very Indian Christian parents who are giddily in the process of arranging her marriage, while she becomes faint at the thought of telling them she’s having her secret American boyfriend’s baby. She has also written Essays of Night and Daylight, which includes stories on how culture and womanhood collide between two generations of an immigrant family. Patty speaks