Dr. Michele Dow is a lifelong educator and activist. For sixteen years, she worked at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education rising to State Director of English Learner Programs before being recruited to join the Boston Public Schools as the Senior Manager for English Learner Programs where she co-led the development of the first Settlement Agreement between the Boston Public Schools, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, regarding their services to English Learners. For six of those years, she simultaneously taught at the Harvard University Extension School Institute of English Learners where she twice received the Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2015, she left her position in Boston to pursue her lifelong dream of completing a PhD in Educational Leadership and taught for two years in the Cambridge Public Schools. It was this experience as a teacher coming out at work in Cambridge that compelled her to write her dissertation and then a book on the experiences of transgender educators including her own (Transgender Educators: Understanding Marginalization through an Intersectional Lens, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Dr. Dow continues to write and lecture on topics related to educational leadership, English learners and LGBTQIA+ faculty and students.