Dr. Tunette Powell, is an activist mama, freedom dreamer and storyteller whose scholarship focuses on issues of race, racism, kinship, community, education, and documenting system-induced collective trauma. She's been featured in every major daily newspaper and has appeared on Oprah’s Lifeclass, CNN and MSNBC. 

Her professional career has been profoundly shaped by the year 2014, when her two oldest sons, 3 and 4 years old at the time, were suspended from preschool, an experience that sparked her lifelong commitment to transforming education for Black children and families. 

Dr. Powell is an Assistant Research Professor and the Director of Parent and Family Partnerships at the Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University. Dr. Powell has committed her scholarship, advocacy and storytelling to disrupting system-induced collective trauma and centering truth, joy and the freedom dreams of historically and contemporarily marginalized communities.