Dr. Naomi Mae W. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an activist and community organizer for over 15 years, Dr. Mae’s current work centers youth organizers of color as they build multiracial-multiethnic coalitions to actualize educational justice in under-resourced urban districts. In studying the ecology of youth organizing (including intergenerational CBOs, youth workers, community partnerships, etc.), Mae researches how the praxis of youth organizing can serve as an exemplar of meaningful critical civic education and engagement. She engages community-based research methods, action research, and critical ethnography while leveraging youth resistance and relational race theories to inform praxis and actualize greater justice and solidarity in collaboration with young people and communities.