Kendra V. Johnson, J.D., Ed.D., is a national speaker on instructional leadership and intersectional racial equity.  Kendra has served as a teacher, department chairperson, assistant principal, principal, instructional director, chief academic officer, and superintendent. Currently, she is a community superintendent in a K-12 public school district. In October 2021, she, along with five amazingly talented co-authors – Brinkley-Parker, Durant, Taylor, Toe, and Williams – published, Humanity Over Comfort: How You Confront Systemic Racism Head On from Corwin Press.