Teisha Holloway is a 2024-2026 Teach Plus New Mexico Policy Fellow and technology and arts 7-12 teacher at Digital Art and Technology Academy (DATA) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, focusing on media literacy and analog technologies in partnership with the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is a New Mexico Public Education Department Teacher Liaison. Teisha taught arts courses at Alfred University and Oklahoma Panhandle State University, and was an afterschool program director at North Star Elementary. She was part of DATA’s leadership middle school redesign team. Teisha has an associate’s in visual communication with a focus in graphic design, digital imaging, and pre-press technology from Linn-Benton Community College; BFA with a focus in photography and sculpture and a minor in philosophy from Clemson University in Clemson; and MFA in sculpture and dimensional studies from Alfred University. She also has an alternative teaching license and second master’s in curriculum and instruction from New Mexico Highlands University.