Kersti Tyson is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico where she has the honor of working with NM's future and current teachers. She supports future elementary teachers to learn how to teach math in equitable ways that honor children's sense-making. She supports current teachers to study and deepen their own professional practices. Kersti taught middle school math in Santa Fe and Taos, NM, has worked in education policy, and earned her PhD in Learning Sciences from the University of Washington. Her passion is researching and teaching about the roles of listening in learning and enacting education in ways that nurture OUR human potential.