Kris Fields is a 2024-2025 Teach Plus Illinois Affinity Group Facilitator and English teacher at Cahokia High School in Cahokia, Illinois. She served as a teacher leader for the 2023-2024 grant cycle and teacher facilitator for Community Unit School District’s New Teacher Academy. Kris has a BA in English from Lane College, MA in teaching from Southern Illinois University (SIU) at Edwardsville, MA in communications from Lindenwood University, and EdS in education administration from SIU at Edwardsville.