Ulcca Joshi Hansen is an educator, advocate, and strategist with more than two decades of experience working to make education more human-centered, equitable, and aligned with how people actually learn and grow. A first-generation American who began school as an English language learner and was the first in her family to attend college and graduate school, Ulcca brings both lived experience and deep expertise to her work reimagining what schools can be. Her early classroom experience teaching third grade in Newark, NJ, and her time as a Program Fellow at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, working alongside transformative educators including Ted Sizer and Sir Ken Robinson, shaped her conviction that learning and schooling must be reconnected. Her work spans nonprofit planning, program design, evaluation, teacher preparation, and school-based improvement strategies, always grounded in cutting-edge research on human development, the learning sciences, and networked organizational change. Ulcca’s current focus includes helping adults develop the confidence and skills to engage in brave conversations about race, identity, equity, and belonging — foundational work for creating the schools and learning experiences young people deserve.