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Dr. Jessica Lee Stovall is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also holds affiliate positions in Curriculum and Instruction and Education Policy Studies at the UW-Madison’s School of Education. Her research in education draws on the discipline of Black Studies to explore how Black teachers create co-create spaces to navigate and combat antiblackness at their respective school sites. Her dissertation on Black teachers provides a blueprint for how all teachers can create classrooms of liberated learning for their students, and it was awarded the 2024 Critical Educators for Social Justice Dissertation Award. Dr. Stovall is published in English Journal, Equity & Excellence in Education, Phi Delta Kappan, Journal of Negro Education, Philosophy of Education, and Race Ethnicity and Education among others. She holds a B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.S. in Literature from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE) and Curriculum and Teacher Education (CTE) at Stanford University. Before beginning her doctoral studies at Stanford, Jessica taught English and reading for 11 years in the Chicagoland area.