Shane Safir is a leadership coach and facilitator who creates brave spaces for tackling educational equity. Shane was the founding co-principal of San Francisco’s June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), a cutting-edge national model quoted by leading scholar Linda Darling-Hammond as having "beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color." For more than 20 years, Shane has worked as an award-winning teacher, school founder and principal, and coach, developing hundreds of leaders at every level of the school system. She is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation and writes frequently for Edutopia and ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine. Shane and her diverse team provide leadership coaching, strategic planning support, and equity-centered professional learning for schools, districts, and organizations across the country and in Canada. Shane’s newest book, co-written with Dr. Jamila Dugan, is Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin: 2021). Follow @ShaneSafir or visit shanesafir.com to learn more.

Jamila Dugan (coauthor) is a leadership coach, learning facilitator, and researcher. She began her career as a teacher in Washington, D.C., successfully supporting her school to implement an International Baccalaureate program.

After being nominated for Teacher of the Year, she later served as a coach for new teachers in Oakland, California.

As a school administrator, Jamila championed equity-centered student services, parent empowerment, and co-led the development of the first public Mandarin immersion middle school in the Bay Area. Jamila and Shane began their work together

seven years ago during the development of The Listening Leader, for which Jamila acted as the primary researcher. Jamila currently serves as an equity-centered leadership development coach across all sectors including nonprofits, public school districts, charter networks, and parochial and private schools. She is an avid supporter of dual-language learning, serving on the boards of Independence Charter Spanish Immersion School in Philadelphia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Fresno State University, a master’s degree in early childhood education from George Mason University, and a doctorate in education leadership for equity from University of California, Berkeley. Jamila is also a loving wife and the mother of three

amazing children who remain her constant inspiration for her work.