My name is Shakira Hightower. I have been an educator for over 20 years. I strongly believe in the potency of education. Not only is education a means to provide a tool kit for a career, it is a tool that can be used to create structures for understanding, improving, and adding to the world and it's paradigms. I hope that through my work as an education professional, I have inspired students to become thinkers and architects of solutions systems.