Boston College graduate Tanji Reed Marshall is a nationally recognized and sought-after expert on educational equity and educational leadership. Her book Understanding Your Instructional Power: Curriculum and Language Decisions to Support Each Student (ASCD, 2023), helps teacher candidates reflect on how everyday decisions around curriculum, language, time, and space can either affirm student identity or unintentionally limit it. Drawing from her own experience as a classroom teacher and coach, Reed Marshall offers support and encouragement to K–12 teachers seeking to use their power in productive ways so that all students can bring their full selves to class and receive the education they deserve. Reed Marshall is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Liaison Educational Partners. She has more than two decades of experience in advancing practice on behalf of students of color, those experiencing economic uncertainty, and those perpetually left on the margins of the education system. She partners with states, school districts, schools, and education organizations to solve complex issues related to educational equity and improve educational leadership. Reed Marshall earned a bachelor’s degree from BC in 1986. She also holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.