Megan Hester has been a community organizer, trainer and researcher in the education justice movement for nearly three decades, coordinating local, statewide and national coalitions and campaigns that have won game-changing policies for community schools, culturally responsive education, transformative family engagement, funding equity and more. Megan was one of the founding organizers and coordinators of the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice for 15 years, and has worked extensively with Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), a national labor community coalition for education justice. She currently helps coordinate federal campaigns and leads the Free the Future project for AROS, which trains, coaches and supports parent organizers to defend and transform public education in strategic geographies across the country that lack education organizing infrastructure. She has two daughters in NYC public schools.