Tristta Kuykendall is the Coordinator of Data at Lakewood City Schools and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Foundations at Cleveland State University. She has over a decade of experience in PreK - 12 public education. TK has an undergraduate degree in Psychology, graduate degrees in Sociology and Education Research, and a doctorate in Urban Education Policy. TK is a critical quantitative researcher with a focus on culturally relevant research. Her research interests include QuantCrit, data for justice, intersectional program evaluation, and the historical exclusion/underrepresentation of gifted Blacks in education- advanced academic spaces generally and gifted education specifically.