DANE STICKNEY worked as a newspaper reporter in Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa for over a ­ decade before becoming a sixth-­ grade writing teacher at a ­ middle school on Denver’s Northside. He and his students tackled social justice topics including undocumented student access to higher education, gentrification, and school-­ related gun protections while also achieving the district’s top scores in writing assessments. After five years in the classroom, Dane moved to the University of Colorado Denver, where he is a clinical assistant professor of education supporting teacher development through the ASPIRE to Teach program, the Curriculum and Instruction master’s track, and the Student Voice and Leadership initiative through Denver Public Schools. He has been a member of the Transformative Student Voice research collective for a ­decade and chairs the Action Research Network of the Amer­i­cas’ (ARNA) Youth Participatory Action Research subgroup. His work earned him the 2022 CU Denver campus-­wide ­ Service and Leadership award (IRC) and ARNA’s Eduardo Flores leadership award in 2024. Dane earned his PhD in 2022; his dissertation focused on ideas of student voice, teacher agency, and sociopo­liti­cal development. He is lead author of Transformative Student Voice for Teachers: A Guide to Classroom Action published by Harvard Education Press in 2025.