Jacqui Reedy is a 2022-2023 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellow and a kindergarten teacher at the State of Illinois Child Development Center in Chicago. She teaches children in the areas of special needs, giftedness, and social emotional learning. Jacqui has also worked as a preschool teacher and created learning tools and a virtual gallery as the Erikson Institute Ambassador to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Jacqui is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and Gateways to Opportunity. She earned her BA in Early Childhood Education from Arizona State University and an MS in Child Development with a concentration in Special Needs from the Erikson Institute in Chicago