Marcy Singer-Gabella is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt, and co-director of PEER. Over the past 30 years, she has collaborated closely with school, district and university educators to address barriers to equitable educational opportunity and post-secondary success for students, and to build professional learning cultures for teachers. At Vanderbilt she has served on the provost’s staff to foster K-16 partnerships in Tennessee, and led degree programs in curriculum and teacher education. Her scholarly interests center on designing inclusive contexts that bring together stakeholders to investigate and address pressing problems of inequity. Marcy teaches courses in the Learning, Diversity and Urban Studies program (M.Ed.), Learning, Teaching and Diversity program (Ph.D.), and undergraduate teacher education programs.