LaShanda Ticer-Wurr is a 2020-2021 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellow and is a Preschool Assistant Teacher in a 4-year-old play-based classroom at the State of Illinois Child Development Center. She also worked for a decade as a Resident Head in the University of Chicago Student Housing System. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an Advanced Certificate in Preschool Education from City Colleges of Chicago, an Illinois State Board of Education Paraprofessional License, and an Illinois Gateways Early Childhood Education Level Five Credential.