Dr. Megan Pamela Ruth Madison (she, her) is a queer, neuroexpansive, cisgender auntie and a Black feminist scholar-activist. She grew up along the shores of Lake Michigan and in 2011, earned a master’s degree in early childhood education while working full-time as a lead teacher in a bilingual preschool classroom at the Carole Robertson Center for Learning. In 2024, Dr. Madison completed her Ph.D. in Social Policy, with a concentration in child, youth and family policy. For the last decade, she has lived on Lenape land* in Harlem, facilitating professional learning for teachers on anti-bias education. In her volunteer time, Megan has established herself as a visionary, strategic, and effective community leader through her service on the boards of the National Association for the Education for Young Children, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Trans formative Schools. In the eyes of young children, Dr. Megan is best known as an author. With Jessica Ralli, she wrote First Conversations–an award-winning series of nonfiction board books that #TeachTruth about race, gender, consent, love, bodies, grief, justice, and disability. Despite ongoing attempts to ban these essential conversations, they’ve sold more than 260,000 copies to date!
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Dr. Megan Pamela Ruth Madison 