Dr. Jennifer Esposito is a Department Chair and Professor of Research in the department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her research examines the ways race, class, gender, and/or sexuality impact a person’s experiences within education, including the educative sites of popular culture/media. She is the co-author of the book Intersectional Analysis of Popular Culture Texts: Clarity in the Matrix. Additionally, she is the author of over 40 articles and book chapters. She has published in journals like Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Urban Education. Venus Evans-Winters is a research and policy scholar, former professor of education, and Senior Researcher at the African American Policy Forum. She is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice. Her research interests are educational policy analysis, racial trauma inside and outside of schools, and Black girls’ and women’s psychosocial development across the African diaspora. Dr. Evans-Winters is the author of Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter’s Body and Teaching Black Girls: Resilience in Urban Schools. She is co-editor of the books Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Up, Back, & Out, Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader, and (Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom. She is also the author of numerous academic journal articles and book chapters. She is also the Executive Director of Planet Venus Institute.