Lisa Fetman, Ph.D. (she/her) is an independent scholar with adjunct faculty appointments at Florida Southern College (Educational Leadership) and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (Teaching and Learning). Dr. Fetman formerly taught K-12 Spanish in Chicago, Illinois and Tucson, Arizona, working in diverse communities and sociocultural/sociopolitical contexts. Her research encompasses the enactment of education policy within culturally diverse schools, particularly related to the effects of neoliberalism on policy creation, implementation, and disruption. As a former language teacher, she deeply cares about the education of emergent multilinguals, and hence also focuses her scholarship on the intersection of policies and practices within linguistically diverse student populations. Dr. Fetman teaches coursework in diversity and inclusion, curriculum and instruction, culturally responsive leadership, and instructional leadership. She currently resides in Chicago, Illinois with her husband, daughter, and chihuahua. She continuously commits to transforming education policies and practices in her personal and professional life in the Windy City.

Linsay DeMartino, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Division for Advancing Education Policy, Practice, and Leadership housed within Mary Lou Fulton College (MLFC) for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). Dr. DeMartino considers herself a scholar-practitioner. As a former P-12 educational practitioner in Tucson Unified School District, Dr. DeMartino served as a special education teacher, inclusion specialist, special education department chair, and instructional data and intervention administrative coordinator. Her current research examines storytelling as praxis, transformative practices, and equitable community collaboration in schools. She is particularly interested in educational practices grounded in just schooling and contextual alternatives rather than "best practices" and educational trends. Dr. DeMartino is a co-founder and co-lead of the Storytelling Learning Futures Collaborative (LFC) at MLFC, and she resides in the shadow of Tonto National Forest with her perfectly imperfect pup, Lorca.