Nina Mauceri, Ph.D., is an educator and researcher whose work examines how schools create more inclusive and equitable environments for LGBTQIA+ youth. With over twenty years of experience in education as a teacher, administrator, and instructional leader, her work bridges research and practice, exploring how school culture, curriculum, and student-led spaces shape belonging and opportunity for young people. Her ethnographic research focuses on how schools attempt to become LGBTQ-friendly, paying particular attention to the role of Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs), institutional change, and the tensions that arise when schools seek to transform norms and practices. Nina began her career as an elementary school teacher in the South Bronx and has since served as a middle school assistant principal and director of special education. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Education and an M.Phil. in Teaching and Learning from New York University, an M.S.Ed. from Bank Street College, and a B.A. in English and American Literature from NYU.