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We are both life‐long educators who share a deep commitment to tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of healing and transforming the world. We also both love words; we love reading and writing, drinking coffee, and eating cheese; and we're drawn to the redwoods and the Pacific Ocean. We can be shy and socially awkward but thrive in healthy communities, so we seek to create communities where each person is seen for who they truly are. We both still design and deliver PD almost every week.

Lori has worked in both public and independent schools since 1999, as a teacher, instructional coach, administrator, and facilitator. Early on in her career, Lori realized she had two great loves in education: teaching young people and teaching adults. She has had the good fortune to do both, bringing an infusion of humor and heart to every learning experience. Throughout Lori's leadership journey, equity has been a central lens through which she creates the conditions for transformational learning. Lori identifies as a Jewish, queer, white, cisgender, English‐speaking woman. She was a first‐generation college student who put herself through school; this experience informs Lori's big questions about equity and access, power, and privilege.

Elena became a teacher in 1994 and spent 19 years working in the Oakland, California, public schools, where she was a teacher, instructional coach, leadership coach, and administrator. Following the publication of her first book, The Art of Coaching (2013), Elena founded Bright Morning Consulting and began delivering professional development sessions across the United States and abroad. Her trainings are based on her model of Transformational Coaching and on her books on team development (The Art of Coaching Teams, 2016), resilience (Onward, 2018), and educational equity (Coaching for Equity, 2020). Elena is also the host of the Bright Morning Podcast where she models coaching conversations. Elena identifies as Latina and Jewish, as a cisgender, heterosexual woman, as a Spanish‐bilingual immigrant, and with the lower socioeconomic status of her childhood. In addition, she is a mother. These identity experiences profoundly affect how she thinks about education, learning spaces, and community.

Lori joined the Bright Morning team in 2019 and contributed to The Art of Coaching Workbook (Aguilar, 2020). Writing this book together has been a tremendous learning experience. We're amazed by how we've grown individually, by the way our partnership has deepened, and by what two heads (and hearts) can create.