Elizabeth Bishop

Dr. Elizabeth Bishop is an educator, researcher and youth advocate with two decades of experience in UPK-12 schools, higher education institutions, and community-based organizations across the United States. Dr. Bishop teaches on the faculty of youth studies at CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS) and the faculty of urban education at CUNY Graduate Center. She is Co-Founder of Global Turning Points, an international consulting collective. Bishop has held leadership positions at the City University of New York and the NYC Department of Education as well as community-based organizations.

Dr. Bishop holds a PhD in education: language, literacy and culture, an MST. in adolescent education, an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, and a BA in planned studies. She is completing the Global Leadership Diploma from the Center for Executive Education at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. She has been featured in Good Morning America Digital, PBS NewsHour, Business Insider and PolitiFact.

Bishop's writing includes her 2015 Becoming Activist: Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing and 2018 Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance which she created with artist Tamsen Wojtanowski. She has two new books expected out in 2022 and 2023.