Kari Morris (they/them) is a multi-hyphenate artist, educator, researcher, and serves as Project Manager for the Education Leadership Data Analytics Research Group (ELDA) at Teachers College. For the past decade, they’ve successfully mentored teams and facilitated initiatives that enable student equity and empower student expression. Most recently, they were an instrumental part of the Bridges project, a K-2 curriculum model that combines arts, literacy, and SEL, researched and refined over an 8 year period in collaboration with ArtsResearch, ArtsConnection, and over 100 New York City public school teachers. Kari is an alumnus of Millikin University, The School of Drama at the New School, and Teachers College’s TACTC certificate program in responsive pedagogy. They’re excited to support the vital storytelling work of ELDA.