biography

Brett Gardiner Murphy (she/her) is researcher and public high school teacher in New York City. She has over fifteen years of experience in culturally relevant and sustaining curriculum design, project-based learning, teacher leadership, facilitation, writing, and qualitative research and has a PhD in Urban Education from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Brett is the editor of the book Inside Our Schools: Teachers on the Failure and Future of Education Reform, published by Harvard Education Press in May 2017. 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. Brett formerly served as the Director of Strategic Projects at the Posse Foundation. Her current research focuses on philanthropy and public education.