Katherine Thompson (B.A. Duke University; M.A. Ed. Wake Forest University) has taught in a variety of secondary and tertiary settings in the United States, Australia, and Tanzania. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney (Bedegal Country), and a sessional academic and research assistant within the UNSW School of Education, working in the fields of LGBTQ+ families and health, Indigenous education, sociocultural contexts of education, and equity in education.