Jerusha Conner is Professor of Education at Villanova University. Her research focuses on youth activism and organizing, student voice, and student engagement. She studies how youth become activists, what sustains them in this work, what they learn from their involvement, and how this learning in turn shapes their developmental journeys. Her projects also investigate the influence of student voice and youth activism on youths’ institutions, as they seek to make these contexts more inclusive, responsive, equitable, and accountable. Her research has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation, among others. She is the author of more than 40 journal articles and book chapters, two edited collections (Contemporary Youth Activism, ABC-CLIO, 2016 and Student Voice in American Education Policy, Teachers College Record. 2015), and The New Student Activists (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). At Villaova University, Dr. Conner has won awards for her teaching and her service. A former high school English teacher, she graduted magna cum laude from Princeton University with a A.B. in English Literature and holds a doctorate in Educational Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford Graduate School of Education.