Wallace Grace is a PhD Candidate in Education Policy Studies in the Social Sciences and Education Concentration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a practitioner, Wallace has spent 15 years in K-12 education working in schools, districts and education nonprofits in D.C., Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Atlanta. Towards the latter part of these years, he served as the Directors of Design and Innovation for organizations aimed at addressing racial inequities in education. As a researcher, Wallace’s interests sit at the intersection of Education, Human Flourishing and Social Innovation during childhood and adolescence. His dissertation project is a quantitative exploration of preschool Black boys’ social and emotional well-being and learning across the primary ecologies of their early childhood.