Kate Shuster

Kate is originally from New Mexico. In high school, college, and graduate school she participated actively in intercollegiate policy debate as a competitor, coach and educator in 1992, she was only the second woman to win the college national debate championship.

She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from Claremont Graduate University with twin emphases in educational policy and research methods. She has worked as an independent research and evaluation consultant for most of her life, working with large and small data sets to investigate questions of equity with advanced research methodology.

Most recently, she managed the Teaching Hard History initiative for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance initiative and led an interdisciplinary team that created the world's first K-12 framework for teaching the twin histories of slavery and settler colonialism in what is currently known as the United States.