biography

Brett Gardiner Murphy has over fifteen years of experience in culturally relevant and sustaining curriculum design, professional development, facilitation, writing, and research. She is a 9th grade global history teacher at a public high school in New York City and a PhD student in Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Before returning to the classroom, she was the Director of Strategic Projects at the Posse Foundation, where she helped establish a new consulting arm for the organization and developed curricula exploring identity and power, including a series of retreats that attracted over 6,000 participants annually. Brett is the editor of the book Inside Our Schools: Teachers on the Failure and Future of Education Reform, published by Harvard Education Press. She is also the co-author of The Storytelling Project, a curriculum developed by an interdisciplinary creative team of artists, public school teachers, university faculty, and students to address race and racism through storytelling and the arts. Her current research focuses on the role of whiteness in public education philanthropy. She continues to work as a facilitation and curriculum design consultant to help schools and organizations work towards anti-racism and social justice.