DR. PRECIOUS SYMONETTE, Ed.D., is a 19-year veteran educator with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. This award-winning educator has been featured on NPR, is a TEDx Miami speaker, a Fulbright scholar, a National Geographic Grosvenor teacher fellow, and a Polar STEAM fellow. She is a poet and published author; her most recent work can be found in the books Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation and Stories of Belonging: A Celebration. She is the founder and CEO of the Florida Freedom Writers Foundation, a youth-focused nonprofit dedicated promoting free expression both in written and verbal form and helping teens develop into global citizens. She is also an adjunct professor at Miami Dade College.