Bettina L.Love is an award-winning author and a University of Georgia associate professor of educational theory and practice. Her research focuses on how teachers and schools might establish communal, civically engaged, antiracist, antihomophobic, and antisexist educational, egalitarian classrooms in collaboration with parents and communities. Love has also contributed commentary for news sites such as NPR, the Guardian, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a variety of topics, including hip-hop education, Black girlhood, LGBT adolescent, hip-hop feminism, art-based education to inspire youth civic involvement, and issues of diversity.