Aaliyah El-Amin is a faculty member at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where her research and teaching focus on ensuring that educators have the knowledge and tools they need to disrupt systems of oppression. Her specific interest areas include liberatory education models, social justice schooling, critical pedagogy, and youth participatory action research. Aaliyah has also worked as an elementary classroom teacher and a school instructional facilitator in Atlanta, GA; executive director of Teach for America in Charlotte, NC; and interim vice president of program and innovation for the Black Teacher Collaborative.