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Candace Raskin, Ed.D., served as an educational leader in Minnesota public schools for 18 years as a superintendent, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment, middle school principal, elementary principal, and high-potential coordinator. Her work has been recognized nationally and is published in six different scholarly journals. Dr. Raskin has presented for multiple organizations, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in both the United States and Canada. She currently teaches graduate and doctorate courses as a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she is the co-founder and facilitator of the Institute for Courageous Principal Leadership. Melissa Krull, Ph.D., has an extensive background serving in leadership capacities at a 10,000-student school district for 20 years of which ten were as superintendent. Her recent work includes district leadership toward the elimination of achievement gaps and school integration to avoid racial and low-income segregation. She has served as a keynote speaker, panelist, and presenter for various organizations and universities, including Georgetown Law Center and The U.S. White House. Dr. Krull is the co-author of a chapter in More Courageous Conversations: From Theory to Practice (2012) and she currently teaches graduate and doctorate courses as a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she is also co-founder and facilitator of the Institute for Courageous Principal Leadership. Antonia Felix, Ed.D., is the author of 21 books including biographies of leaders such as Senator Elizabeth Warren, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Her educational research focuses on the use of expressive writing to develop racial consciousness and process the impacts of racial microaggressions experienced by principals
of color.