Shayna Cureton is the co-founder of Abundant Beginnings, a project that centers Black children and families and seeks to create liberated learning and activist communities as direct antidotes to the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Shayna, who has led the creation of hundreds of radical child-centered spaces as Director of Abundant Beginnings’ Forest Freedom School and camp programs, is a recipient of the Community Partner Award from Our Family Coalition, and a YBCA 100 honoree.