Lisette E. Torres-Gerald, Ph.D., is a trained scientist and disabled scholar-activist who is a Senior Research Associate and Project Coordinator at TERC, a non-profit made up of teams of math and science education and research experts. She is also the Director of Justice and Disability in STEM for the Equity Institute for Race Conscious Pedagogy. Lisette has a doctorate with a Certificate in Social Justice from the School of Education at Iowa State University and a M.S. in Zoology with a Certificate in Ecology from Miami University. Her academic research focuses on addressing racialized gender justice and disability in science and higher education. Lisette is an active member of Science for the People and helps with editing Science for the People Magazine. She is also a co-founder and executive board member of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) as well as an advisory board member of Science Friday’s Breakthrough Dialogues Program and the Invisible Disability Project (IDP).
Daniel Reinholz, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University. Daniel completed their postdoctoral work in the Center for STEM learning at CU Boulder, and has a Ph.D. in mathematics and science education from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS in mathematics from Colorado State University. Their work focuses on mitigating racial and gender inequities in mathematics classrooms and using organizational theories to create systemic change in STEM departments. Much of this work is organized around the EQUIP classroom observation tool, which provides concrete analytics that instructors can use to reflect on their practice and learn to teach in more socially just ways. Daniel co-leads the guiding theories working group for the Accelerating Systemic Change Network.