Amber K. Kim earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver in June of 2012 with a focus on Urban Education and Culturally Responsive and Critical Pedagogy. Amber is a coach and consultant committed to helping educators develop equity literacy and student-centered schools. She partners to create educational environments that resist harm, fight oppression, and strengthen and nourish all students and staff--particularly those who are marginalized, excluded, and suffer discrimination. She has worked with Tulsa Public Schools and San Francisco Unified School District, as well as Big Picture Learning. She taught for ten years in three cities—Plainfield, Atlanta, and Denver. Amber currently teaches at the University of Colorado (Denver and Boulder). She is an amateur Muay Thai kick boxer and a mother of three children, two cats, and a hamster.