Regina Bernard-Carreño was born and raised in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. She was a graduating pioneer of the African American Studies Master’s Degree Program at Columbia University, where she worked as the Assistant Editor of the Malcolm X Multimedia Project. She completed her M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in urban education at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Dr. Bernard-Carreño is an assistant professor at Baruch College in New York City, where she teaches undergraduate courses in Black and Latino/a studies as well as women’s studies; and is the author of Black and Brown Waves: The Cultural Politics of Young Women of Color and Feminism (2009). She has published essays in What You Don’t Know About Schools and the award-winning Encyclopedia of Contemporary Youth Culture, as well as articles on Black pedagogy in the Journal of Pan African Studies.