Kim Singletary received her PhD in Communication from Northwestern University with a focus on visual rhetoric and critical race and ethnic studies. She received her MA from Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, Technology program, and her BJ from the Missouri School of Journalism with a concentration in news editorial journalism. She has presented her theoretical work on representations of blackness in the global public sphere across Europe and North America. She has nearly a decade of experience giving public talks and leading workshops on race, equity, and inclusion for non-academic audiences across the West Coast and Midwest. After more than 10 years in the classroom, she left academia for the field of educational technology before coming to the Advancing Health Equity team.