Crystasany R. Turner, Ph.D. (she/her/ella), is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. As a fourth-generation early educator and product of her grandmother’s home-based childcare program, her research centers the perspectives and cultural knowledge of Black women educators in the care and education of Children of Color. Her scholarship examining systemic inequities and spirit-centered pedagogies in early childhood education, has been published in Race Ethnicity and Education, the Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, and the Journal of Teacher Education, among others.
