Dr. Rachel Talbert is a 2021 graduate of the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development with a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. She serves with the Civic Changemakers program and school year extensions of civic programming. Her community engaged scholarship focuses on urban youth in public schools and civic identity negotiation. She is interested in how school climate, social studies classes and curriculum as well as out of school and extracurricular spaces support urban youth in public schools.