About the Author:
Kirsten Cole, PhD is a teacher, researcher, and public school parent based in Brooklyn, NY. Her research
interests include anti-racist/anti-bias education, the study of teachers' lives, and the relationships
between families and teachers, and she has published multiple articles and book chapters based on her
research. Cole received her doctorate in Urban Education from the City University of New York (CUNY)
in 2013. She has the pleasure to teach and learn from her students and colleagues as a professor of
early childhood education at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College. Cole and her
colleagues have been awarded grants from BMCC’s President’s Fund for Excellence and CUNY’s Black,
Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative to support their work on BMCC’s Anti-Racist Pedagogy Project.