Elizabeth Bishop is an educator, researcher and youth advocate. She holds a PhD in Language, Literacy and Culture from the University of Pittsburgh, a MST in Adolescent Education from Pace University, a MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA in Planned Studies from Ithaca College. Previously, Bishop worked on faculty at Ithaca College, as Deputy Director at the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School and as Assistant Director of the Peace Corps Fellows Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Originally from Newtown, Connecticut, she began her career as a classroom teacher in the Bronx and has taught and served in leadership positions across NYC public schools and youth development organizations. Besides her work at GK, Bishop also teaches on the faculty of the Youth Studies Program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies and directs the Drop Knowledge Project where she conducts research on literacy and activism. Her first book “Becoming Activist: Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing” was released by Peter Lang in 2015 and her second book “Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance” will be out in 2018.