Dr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton (https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6189-6418) is a Black motherscholar and Clinical Associate in Stanford’s Teacher Education Program (STEP). She is the co-founder of Making Us Matter (https://makingusmatter.com/) and a co-founding editor of The Black Educology Mixtape (https://repository.usfca.edu/be/vol2/iss1/) (Journal), a collective dedicated to advancing transformative education and promoting liberation and visibility for Black communities. Her scholarship focuses on the construction of interlocking identities by investigating the intersections of race, identity, and education. She has been published in Harvard Educational Review, Equity & Excellence in Education, and Race Ethnicity and Education. Her current work centers on Black educational studies, Black methodologies, and critical peda
gogy. With over 16 years of experience in education—her writing, teaching, and research meet at the intersections.

Kiara Smith is a seventh-year English Language Arts teacher, currently teaching eleventh and twelfth grade in the East Bay Area of California. Her first five years teaching were spent at a racially and economically diverse public high school in an urban neighborhood, but currently she is working at a middle class suburban public high school with a majority white and East/South Asian population. Kiara is proud to have received her Masters of Education degree from Vanderbilt University's Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies program with an emphasis in language, literacy, and culture in 2017. She then got her single-subject teaching credential from Mills College in 2018 and is currently working toward her Doctorate of Education in the International and Multicultural Education program at the University of San Francisco with a concentration in Racial Justice. She is passionate about education and racial equity and is excited to share in community with you!