Dr. Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen is a Professor of Leadership Studies at CUNY Lehman College, a Hispanic Serving Institution in the Bronx, where she also serves as the coordinator of School and District Leader certification programs, and an affiliated faculty member in the Urban Education Ph.D. Program at CUNY Graduate Center. An educator for over twenty years, Dr. Rivera-McCutchen began her career as a Bronx high school teacher, before earning her doctorate in Teaching and Learning at New York University. She is a first-generation college graduate, and her research, teaching, and activism are informed by her experiences as an educator and student in NYC public schools. Dr. Rivera-McCutchen’s scholarship focuses on urban school leaders who practice “radical care,” centering anti-racism and equity as part of their leadership work. Her research has appeared in Educational Administration Quarterly, Teachers College Record, Urban Education, the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, and other peer-reviewed journals. Her book, Radical Care: Leading for Justice in Urban Schools, was published by Teachers College Press in 2021.