Micayla Tatum is a 2021-2022 Teach Plus Mississippi Senior Policy Fellow and fourth-grade math teacher and grade-level chair at Warren Central Intermediate School in Vicksburg. Micayla is a 2016 Teach for America alumna, a member of the Vicksburg Warren Association of Educators, and serves as a committee chair of her local NAACP. Micayla earned two BAs in American Studies and Anthropology as well as a certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies at Amherst College and an MEd in Education Policy and Leadership at American University.