Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the author of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal (St. Martin’s Press, 2023), We Want to Do More Than Survive (Beacon Press, 2019), and Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak (Peter Lang, 2012). She writes about race in America for Education Week Opinion. Visit Bettinalove.com for more info.