Cara has been working for nearly 20 years in education, arts and culture to help people reimagine and reshape the world, most recently as Executive Director of Transformative Culture Project, where she served for 12 years. Cara has taught courses in education, sociology, activism, and media at Worcester State University, UMASS Boston and Wheelock College, as…

Nastasia joined Hiatt Center for Urban Education in 2013. Her research focuses on social, personal, and intellectual factors that can influence how students construct academic identities, particularly within the contexts of families and their historical relationships with schooling institutions, social and racial identities, and societal assumptions about students and schools. Nastasia’s current projects include work…