Natalia Benjamin, EdS, the Director of Multilingual Learning for Rochester Public Schools and 2022 Minnesota Teacher of the Year is dually licensed in K-12 ESL and reading and holds a Master's in Language Acquisition and Teaching. She advocates for multilingual and multicultural education, is part of the Facing Inequities and Racism in Education - Racial Equity Advocates program, and is a trainer in Cultural Competency for Education Minnesota. She is passionate about the liberation of marginalized students and works on important issues such as identity work, Heritage Speakers, and humanizing pedagogies in education.