Who We Are
Everyday Advocacy Leadership Team
Cathy Fleischer
Professor emerita Eastern Michigan University
Professional learning consultant
Co-author of Everyday Advocacy
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Sarah Hochstetler
Lawrence, Kansas based educator and teacher leader
Editor of Reform and Literacy Education: History, Effects, and Advocacy
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Jennifer Buehler
Associate professor, Saint Louis University
Author of Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
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Steve Zemelman
Chicago based educator and teacher leader
Co-author of Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters
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Alexa Muse
High school English teacher and Doctoral candidate at University of Oxford
Kate Essig
Former high school teacher and PhD student at Saint Louis University
Everyday Advocacy Advisory Board
Sabrina Baeta
Freedom to Read Program Manager, PEN America
Antero Garcia
Associate Professor, Stanford University
Co-author of Everyday Advocacy
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Cornelius Minor
Brooklyn based educator and teacher leader
Author of We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be
Laura Roop
Independent Consultant for National Writing Project, former site director, and poet
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Dashka Slater
Award winning journalist and YA author
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Molly Swanhorst
High school teacher, NWP teacher consultant, and blogger about education issues