Somayeh Nikoonazari (Nikoo) is a first-year Ph.D. student in Comparative International Education Development. Currently, her research interests include but are not limited to future-building, social movement learning, informal education spaces learning, and social justice. She graduated with a master’s in Human Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder. Minority women’s education has always fascinated her, so she wrote her thesis on Kurdish women’s higher education in Iran. Before moving to the US, she taught English in gender-segregated schools in western provinces in Iran for more than a decade. She holds a degree in Teaching English as a Second Language, which certified her to teach in public schools to populations with intersectional identities. Meanwhile, she was pursuing my education in English Language and Literature and earned both master's and bachelor’s degrees. She is also experienced in administrative positions running high schools for students with different ethnic backgrounds.