About the Author:
Rashelle Hibbard worked as a classroom teacher, curriculum and licensing coordinator, and QRIS coordinator for over a decade before becoming the director of education for Peninsula Children’s Learning Center, a highly renowned nonprofit early childhood program in Portland, Oregon that works with some of the city’s most vulnerable children and their families. Rashelle has her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with a focus on early childhood education from Portland State University.
She is currently an adjunct instructor of early childhood at Portland State. Rashelle is also a member of Oregon’s Early Learning Division’s Equity Committee, where she brings her voice and her expertise as a Black woman and educator to the equity team.