<p class="mb-0"> Akira Harper works on the Engagement Team in the Education Commonwealth Project. She is a Ph.D. candidate, an NSF Fellow, and is earning her degree in STEM Education and Teacher Development at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She specializes in (non-traditional) assessment, curriculum development and implementation, working with STEM teachers, and humanizing communities that have been underserved or marginalized. She is deeply committed to transforming educational spaces, that have been structurally designed to reaffirm inequitable ideologies or policies, through racially-just and equity-oriented work. </p>
<p class="mb-0"> Akira Harper works on the Engagement Team in the Education Commonwealth Project. She is a Ph.D. candidate, an NSF Fellow, and is earning her degree in STEM Education and Teacher Development at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She specializes in (non-traditional) assessment, curriculum development and implementation, working with STEM teachers, and humanizing communities that have been underserved or marginalized. She is deeply committed to transforming educational spaces that have been structurally designed to reaffirm inequitable ideologies or policies through racially-just and equity-oriented work. </p>